TEITIIIS. ■ 14*.) 



The shell is very like that of L. lirasiliensis (if the figure 



given in Fer. and Orb., which I have copied, is correct), but the 



animal is very different in its proportions. It is the narrowest 



species known in proportion to its length. 



West Indies. 



L. 'Bleekekt, Keferstein. PI. 57, figs. 18.5, 18(1. Animal not 

 described. The hectocotylized fourth left arm and a fourt'i 

 right arm, as well as a shell are figured, the latter about 5 

 inches in length. 



Japan. 



B. Buccal membrane witliout projections or suckers. 

 Sul)u;cnus Teuthis, (jhiv. 

 L. MEDIA, Linn. PL 58, figs. 187-189. 



Body subcylindrical, narrowly attenuate behind, and in the 

 adult males produced beyond the fins ; fins subcordiform ; 

 sessile arms with the oblique rings armed with blunt close teeth 

 on the higher side ; tentacular arms long, the sucker rings of the 

 clubs with very close blunt teeth; siphon not valved. Shell 

 lanceolate, broad, narrow in front. 



Europe. 

 This species, known to Aristotle and the ancients, is highly 

 esteemed for food ; at Genoa it bears the local name of Totaneto, 

 and in Italy generally is called Calamaretto. 



Imperfectly known and doubtful species. 



L. Hartingii, Verrill. \'\. (;u, figs. 194, 195. 



Harting described in the Trans, of the Royal Acad, of Amster- 

 dam, in 1860, the buccal parts and some detached suckers of a 

 gigantic cephalopod, preserved in the Utrecht Museum ; locality 

 unknown. He erroneously identifies these fragments with Archi- 

 teuthis dux of Steenstrup, but Yerrill has shown {Am. Nat., ix, 

 85) that the dentition and the cupules are those of a Loligo, for 

 which he proposes the above name. 



I figure the buccal mass and a sucker, actual size, to show the 

 immense dimensions that this creature must have attained. 



L. BouYERi, Crosse and Fischer. PL 59, fig. 193. This is the 

 gigantic cephalopod encountered by the French steamer Alecton, 

 near Teneriffe, an account of which we have already given 



