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the cuttle, and severed its head and another arm. 

 The body sank, and the liead and eyes were un- 

 fortunately lost. From a detailed description given 

 by Mr. A. G. More in the Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History we glean these particulars: The 

 arms were 8 feet in length with a circumference of 

 15 inches round the base; the tentacles 30 feet long, 

 of which the club was probably over three feet when 

 fresh, for its present preserved and shrunken length 

 is 2 feet 9 inches. The centre of this club had two 

 rows of 14 large stalked suckers nearly 1 incli across, 

 and outside these on either side was a row of alter- 

 nating suckers to the same number, but only half 

 the dimensions. There was also a cluster of still 

 smaller suckers in transverse rows at the base of the 

 club. The half-inch suckers were furnished with bony 

 rings having their edge cut into about 28 teeth all 

 pointing inwards ; and it is believed that the 1-inch 

 suckers had been of similar character, but their rings 

 had been removed or had fallen out before they were 

 examined. The long slender stalk of the tentacle 

 also bore a few suckers at intervals along the inner 

 surface, as customary in this genus. The beak had 

 a strong broad tooth above the middle of the edge of 

 the inner mandible, and a much narrower notch on 

 the outer mandible. 



In addition to the foregoing species, two oceanic 

 Cuttles have been taken in British waters, but of 

 course have little claim to be considered anything 

 but chance visitors. OuychoteutJils hanksii, which is 

 very general in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific 

 Oceans, was captured at Banff in 1853, and two dead 

 specimens of Ta^oniiis hyperhoreus were found in 

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