96 ON SEVERAL NEW SPECIES 



softer fin is situated at the superior part of the 

 tail ; its body also is larger. The hone presents a 

 still greater difference, in being very much compres- 

 sed at the base, and a little dilated at the opposite 

 extremity. 



Color, deep blackish brown ; the four superior 

 arms being very much compressed, have their inte- 

 rior surface very narrow and destitute of a lateral 

 membrane ; the suckers are very small and crowded, 

 and seem to form but a single range, though in reali- 

 ty they are disposed in two series and are alternate; 

 the eight arms are furnished with suckers through- 

 out all their length, and are unequal, the inferior 

 ones being longest, and the others diminishing gradu- 

 ally. The long arms, the extremities of which had 

 been cut off by the fishermen, appear to have been 

 very long ; suckers hemispheric, placed upon a short 

 peduncle ; corneous ring, broad and mutic ; the body 

 is inserted very deep in the sac, which renders it 

 very free at the superior part; eyes free in their 

 orbit, which is dilated, rounded, destitute of nictita- 

 ting membrane, and furnished with a lachrymal 

 emargination anteriorly; body, ba<k and tail co- 

 vered with reddish brown points ; a slightly depres- 

 sed line on the superior part of the sac. 



5. L. *Pavo. Sac much elongated, rounded ; 

 eyes very large ; arms very short, depressed ; fin 

 cordate, terminated in a point ; bone very narrow 

 anteriorly, somewhat dilated posteriorly, and subge- 

 latinous. 



