94 ON SEVERAL NEW SPECIES 



by six small appendices, or false arras, furnished 

 with several suckers at their extremities, the two in- 

 feriour appendices shorter. 



The bone is broad, naviculiform, terminated in a 

 point at each extremity, thin at the manrin, carina- 

 ted, and a little more robust at the anterior extremi- 

 ty, which is narrowest. 



The superior part of the head, of the teutacula and 

 of the back covered with reddish-brown points, which 

 are less numerous upon the sides and abdomen. 



Coast of South Carolina ? 



When Mr. Maclure and myself were at Sandy 

 JBay in 1816, we saw a great number of Loligos col- 

 lected by the fishermen, and held in reserve as bait 

 for Cod-fish, which they catch in great numbers on 

 the banks of Newfoundland. The beautiful color 

 with which they were ornamented, induced me to 

 take a drawing of one immediately, but not then hav- 

 ing leisure to complete it, I took a specimen with me 

 to finish the drawing at my leisure. But recently 

 upon comparing this specimen with my drawing, I 

 was much surprized to perceive that I had brought 

 with me a very distinct species from that which I had 

 observed. I mention this circumstance to explain 

 the cause of the brevity of the following description, 

 taken from my drawing. 



