Octopus bermudensis

Hab. Bermuda. One specimen, ♀ juv.

The Body is spheroidal, acuminate behind, and with a median groove ventrally. The mantle-opening extends rather less than half round the circumference of the body, and ter ­ minates some distance behind and a little below the eye. The siphon is long and smooth, and attached by nearly all its length to the head; it extends fully halfway to the umbrella ­ margin. The Head is much narrower and more depressed than the body; the eyes are scarcely at all prominent. The Arms are unequal, in the order 1, 2, 3, 4, about six times as long as the body; they are very long and slender, tapering but slightly. The umbrella is small. The suckers arc small, prominent, and closely set, and the first, four stand in a slightly zigzag line. The hectocotylus is absent. The Surface is smooth for the most part, but the skin is wrinkled over the posterior acuminate extremity, owing to the action of the spirit; there is one very small wart over each eye. The Colour is yellow-ochre, with two pale sienna patches on the back and on the head.