184 ARCHITEUTHIS. 



The eyes were furnished with lids. The few suckers remaining 

 on some of the shorter arms of one specimen, were alternate in 

 two rows, and agree with those of Ommaslreph.e^. The color 

 was reddish, in fine red dots on a white ground, a darker stripe 

 on the outer median line of the arms. Tail acutely i)ointed. 



Alaska. 

 O. BouYERi, Crosse and Fischer. 



O. Hartingii, Verrill. 



These may proA'e to belong to Ommadrephe^ instead of 

 Loligo, under wdiich genus they are described (p. 149). 



(). MoucHEZi, A^elain. PL «2. fig. oTH. 



The animal, stranded iii)on the volcanic island of St. Paul, in 

 the Indian Ocean, was photographed as it lay; and an engraving 

 made from tlie photograph, together with the beaks, pharj^nx 

 and a tentacle brought to Paris, are the basis of a short and 

 unsatisfactory account of it. The truncated arms and the 

 gradually attenuating Ijody. Avith \ery narrow fins extending 

 along each side for half its length, are noticeable peculiarities, 

 as is also the web connecting the arms ; it is questionable, how- 

 ever, how much the engraving may be relied upon. It has 

 received a generic name, but may be preferably retained in 

 Ommastrephes for the present. 



O. (Architeuthis) monachus, Steensti-ui). PI. S8, fig. 379 ; pi. 

 84, figs. 380-385. 



Body stout, cjdindrieal, attenuated to the end ; with arrow- 

 shaped fins, comparativel}^ small ; arms rather long, sub-equal, 

 the suckers in two rows, with rings sharply denticulated all 

 around ; tentacles remarkable for their great length, being each 

 24 feet long, but only 2-75 inches in circiimference, the club is 

 30 inches long, with minute suckers with entire or slightl}' 

 toothed rings, interspersed with tubercles on the lower part 

 (the tubercles probabl}' intended for the adhesion of the suckers 

 of the opposite tentacle, as a point d^appui) ; the middle portion 

 has two rows of large suckers and an outer roM^ of smaller ones 

 on either side ; the tip of the club is covered with foui- rows of 

 small suckers. 



Length of body, 7 feet ; circumference, .5-5 feet ; tail. 22 inches 



