AN OCTOPUS INHABITING THE COAST OF NEW ENGLAND. 397 
a third of its entire length, modified for reproductive purpose into 
a large spoon-shaped organ, broadly elliptical in ate with the 
sides” incurved, somewhat ees at the end, deeply concave 
within, where there are arated akin folds; at 
the base there is a fold sat init an aes angle, the apex directed 
forward, leaving a deep V-shaped sinus behind it, which is in con- 
tinuation of a shallow groove formed by a thickening of the web 
along the side of the arm and terinin midway between it and 
the fourth arm; at the end, the arm te rminates in a small conical 
tip, between the two broadly rounded lobes of the spoon-shaped 
organ; at the base of this organ there is i i 
below which the basal portion Deita about thirty-one E like 
those on the other arms. The modified portion of the is con- 
siderably longer than the distance between the oria a at its 
base and the interbrachial web, and equal to one-half the total 
the arms, 1°75 inches ; breadth of the body 1:25; between eyes *7; 
length of the arms of the first pair, from mouth, 2°25; from mouth 
vi hic of the web -70 ; length of snoditted portion of third right 
‘70; breadth of this organ when expanded °45. 
y iving the color was usually pale, translucent, bluish- 
white, thickly specked with light orange-brown and dark brown. 
bor, po B 
elo ated. There is no other speci ENIRU n the American 
coast, north of Cape Hatteras.. The sou uthern apee is very 
; much loge: and very different in many respects.’ 
