HOYLE, lype specimen of Loligo eblance, Ball. 



at about one-third of its length from the base, a kind of 

 papilla which bears a small sucker. These suckers alter- 

 nate with the large ones in the centre of the club. The 

 horny ^/w^ of the largest suckers {fig. 5) bears about thirty 

 teeth which are slender, acutely pointed, and separated 

 by interspaces about twice as wide as the teeth. 



Dimensions. 



Length, total (excluding tentacles) 



End of body to mantle margin 



Breadth of body ... 



Breadth of head . . 



Length of fin 



Breadth of fin 



Diameter of largest sucker on sessile arm 



Diameter of largest sucker on tentacle . . . 



Right. 

 Length of first arm ... ... 65 mm. 



Length of second arm. 

 Length of third arm .. 

 Length of fourth arm . 

 Length of tentacle 



160 mm. 

 77 » 

 35 » 

 23 » 

 30 )i 

 67 „ 



3*5 » 

 Left. 

 60 mm. 



80 



70 



60 



150 



7.S 

 70 



65 

 160 



The specimen is in rather bad condition and appears 

 to have been somewhat macerated. It has been opened 

 down the middle to extract the pen, which has not been 

 preserved with the specimen. The incision has been 

 stitched up and the mantle has been attached to the head 

 by sutures, and it is very likely that the outline of the 

 body has been somewhat modified by these operations. 

 Nearly all the suckers have lost their horny rings, and 

 on the tentacles I only succeeded in finding one in sitti, 

 and this was so loose that it fell out during examination. 

 I have compared this specimen with examples received 

 from the Zoological Station at Naples, as well as with 

 several others in the Dublin Science and Art Museum. In 



