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in place of the suckers of ordinary squids. The teeth of the odonto- 
phore, in Harting’s species, are remarkably small and simple (see fig. 
4, 6), after Harting. As this species does not appear to have had a 
special name, I propose to call it Hnoploteuthis Hartingii. 
D’Orbigny* gave the name Hnoploteuthis Moline to a large species, 
of which the body was estimated to be about 4 feet long, found float- 
ing and mutilated in the South Pacific, 5. lat., 30° 44°; W. long. 
110° 33’, by Banks and Solander, in 1769, on Capt. Cook’s second 
voyage. Of this, fragments are preserved in the Museum of the 
College of Surgeons, London.t 
A similar species, perhaps identical, had previously been recorded 
by Molina, from the coast of Chili, as Sepia wnguiculata. 
According to Jeffrey’s British Conchology, vol. v, p. 124, a huge 
Cephalopod was stranded in 1860 or 1861, between Hillswick and 
Scalloway, on the west of Shetland. ‘“ From a communication re- 
ceived by Professor Allman it appears that the tentacles were 16 feet 
long, the pedal-arms about half that length, and the mantle sac, 7 
feet ; the mantle was terminated by fins; one of the suckers examined 
by Professor Allman was # inch in diameter.” 
Mr. Kent, in the articles already referred to,{ mentions a sessile arm 
of a giant cephalopod, which has been long preserved in the British 
Museum, but of which the origin is unknown. He states, in the first — 
article, that it is just 9 feet long and 11 inches in circumference at the 
base, tapering off to a fine point. There are about 150 suckers, in each 
of the two alternating rows, those at the base being °75 of an inch in 
diameter. 
In his second article he refers this arm doubtfully to Ommastre- 
phes todarus, and gives the following description : 
“The length of this arm, from one extremity to the other, is just 9 
feet; the circumference at the base 11 inches; and from this it gradu- 
ally decreases, terminating in a fine point. The suckers are arranged 
in two rows throughout the extent of the arm, numbering, approxi- 
mately, 150 to each row, or a total of 300 to the whole organ. Forty- 
three suckers only are stationed on each side in the first or proximal 
half of the arm; one hundred on each side occupy the whole length, 
with the exception of 14 inches, this smaller length including the 
remaining fifty on each side, which are very minute and crowded 
* Histoire Nat. des Céphalopodes Acétabuliferes, p. 339, 1845. 
+ See also Todd’s Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology, i, p. 529. 
} Proceedings Zoological Society of London for 1874, pp. 178 and 493. 
TRANS. CoNN. ACAD., VOL. V. 31 FEBRUARY, 1880, 
