1916.] A. Ll. Massy: Cephalopoda of the Indian Museum. 187 
about the seventh or eighth sucker, after which they become 
much smaller and continue gradually diminishing in size until the 
tip is reached. The cirri commence at about the second or 
third sucker. Specimen M *°’ has enormously enlarged suckers 
on the ventral arms at the edee of umbrella. One of the arms is 
mutilated and only shows one large sucker, the other has five. 
Probably these enlarged suckers are connected with a hectocotylus 
but as the specimen is the best in the collection I have not dissected 
it. Specimen M **3* which has lost almost all of its internal 
organs has three very large suckers at the edge of umbrella on 
four of the arms. ‘he fragments of mantle remaining are so 
twisted that it is impossible to say if these are the four ventral 
arms. 
With regard to measurements M. Joubin has already pointed 
out the difficulty of obtaining accurate figures from placing a 
compass on such soft tissues. A few approximate measurements 
and the number of suckers on some of the arms may be of use. 
Eighty-six suckers were found on the type specimen on an arm 
of 214 mm. Specimen M *4™* possesses fifty-six suckers on the 
second left arm of 126 mm. less tip, seventy-two on the first a 
arm of 140 mm., and seventy-six on the third left of 130 mm. 
specimen M #453 ‘has eighty-six suckers on the first right arm of 
163 mm., ecorore on the second left arm of 147 mm. less tip, and 
ninety on the fourth left of 150 mm. less tip. The proportionately 
larger number of suckers on the arms of the present specimens is 
probably due to the arm lengths being contracted from preserva- 
tion in alcohol. 
All the specimens have the surface inside the umbrella ofa 
deep chocolate colour and the outer surface and fins much paler. 
Specimen number ... M 7#3, M 3274, M 3288, M 8127, M 8188, 
mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. 
End of body to dorsal edge of umbrella ... 61 1 61 51 
Breadth of body __... a se ee OT Sy. 33 22 
5, across eyes 22 if 45 25 
Diameter of eye measured through skin to 18 17 12 12 
Fin length, insertion to tip cer 48 ibe 20 17 
,, anterior to posterior margin... 5 12 3a 10 9 
Diameter of ordinary largest sucker 2 5 3 Silty ol® 
‘. », enlarged sucker ... 6 5 
Distribution.—Azores, 1900 m. (Joubin, 1912). 
Cirroteuthis macrope, Berry. 
Cirroteuthis macrope, Berry, Bull. Bur. Fish., XXX, pp. 273-4, pl. 32 
figs. I-3 (1912). 
M £284 ‘Investigator’ station 109: 25-x-1890, S. of Cape Cormorin, 
7° 41’ N., 78° 21’ E., 738 fathoms—One. 
This is a damaged specimen intermediate in size between the 
two examples described by Berry. It is in sufficiently good 
condition to show clearly the wide mantle-opening, oar-like fins, 
