REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [46] 
The three largest suckers (Plate IX, fig. 9), supposed.to be from near 
the base of the lateral arms, have about 45 marginal denticles, of nearly 
uniform size, and less incurved than in those above described. In these 
the back side of the horny ring is less expanded, and therefore the 
suckers were less oblique than in the smaller ones. The largest of these - 
(a) had the aperture 20"" in diameter. 
Measurements of suckers of short arms (in millimeters). 
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Transverse diameter, outside ......-.. 24202 20) 20M AT 116 AG i OO. bah aR 
Diameter of aperture, inside tb . 9)23: 20) (1005 1-9". | Foe go hs 7 BY MER ode 
Hight of horny ring, back side. -.-.--- NO een as DPA ome Bot aa et fa LD. dicceret vk 5 
Hight of horny ring, front side...-.-.- a LESH 3.5 | a Neti sl Pie 9 3) aonese|™ 2 1.5 
Number of large denticles ..........--| 23|13 | 12 | 12/1) paul 2 10 7| 6 4 
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Number of small genticles $2.25 352.2. 22'| 17 10 | 1 isl (| 
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The long tentacular arms agree very closely with those of A. Harveyi 
(No. 5) in form and in the arrangement of the suckers on the ‘club,’ 
When fresh they measured 914.4 (30 feet) in length, with a circumference 
of about 12.7™ (5 inches), except at the eulaauad club, which was 
20.32" (8 inches) in the middle. But when first oem by me they 
had shrunk to 731.5™ (24 feet) in length, and the circumference of the 
slender portion was 9 to 10™; that of the club was 15.24™ (6 inches). 
At that time the club was 77.47™ (30.5 inches) long; that portion bear- 
ing the larger suckers was 48.26 (19 inches); the wrist or portion bear- 
ing the smaller and partly smooth-rimmed suckers and tubercles was 
15.24" (6 inches) long; the terminal portion, bearing small denticulated 
suckers, was 22.86 (9 inches); the breadth of the front of the club was 
7.62" (3 inches). The terminal portion had a strong carina-like mem- 
brane or crest along the back, and was here 5 (2 inches) wide from 
front to back. 
The large suckers (Plate IX, figs. 1, 1 a) of the tentacular arms are 
nearly circular in outline, and are baad depressed, little oblique, con- 
stricted just below the upper margin, oa then swelled out below the 
constriction to the base. The calcareous ring is strong, white, and so 
ossified as to be somewhat rigid and bone-like. The margin is sur- 
rounded by numerous (about 45 to 50) nearly equal, acute-triangular 
teeth, sometimes separated by spaces equal to their breadth, at other 
times nearly in contact at their bases; their edges are so beveled as to 
be sharp, while there is a triangular thickening in the middle of each 
at base. A wide, deep, and concave groove extends entirely around the 
rim a short distance below the margin; below this the lower part of the 
Tim is somewhat expanded and irregularly plicated, varying in width. 
The largest ring examined by me measures 31"" in its greatest diameter 
externally ; the aperture is 26" and 23"" across its longer and shorter 
diameters ;* greatest hight or breadth of rim, 11"; least hight, 8°"; 
breadth of groove, 1.5™" to 2™, 
*This specimen is somewhat warped by drying, so that the aperture is not so cir- 
cular as when fresh. 
