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rings on its many fingers, suggested to me a specific appel- 
lation, in allusion to old Rome’s coxcomb chivalry, -whose 
gold rings were no less characteristic than their valour. 
My friend informs me that the specimen was procured 
on the 17th of December, 1858, in twenty-eight fathoms’ 
water, about ten miles east of the mouth of the Tees. The 
fisherman who obtained it (a careful collector) had never 
seen one like it, though he had been very familiar with 
T. crassicornis, from the circumstance of some hundreds of 
specimens having been sent to Mr. Teale, from Redcar, 
when that gentleman was engaged in his important re- 
searches into its anatomy. It lived upwards of three weeks 
with its first possessor, and after that a fortnight with me. 
The gTeater portion of this latter period it passed in 
a large tank, where it attached itself, expanded and dilated 
most gorgeously, presenting a grandeur of beauty which all 
who beheld it could scarce sufficiently admire. But for 
a few days before its death it loosed the hold of its base, 
and began to rupture the integuments, displaying the cras- 
peda. Then the stomach-wall protruded, at first in a vesi- 
cular manner, and then by the inordinate recession of the 
lip, so that the plicate and corrugated stomach occupied 
the whole place of the disk- Then the tentacles lost their 
power of distension, and resumed their flaccid and con- 
tracted condition, when the longitudinal sulci became 
again conspicuous. And so the illustrious stranger died. 
I subsequently received another specimen from Banff, in 
every respect like the former. It survived but ten days. 
Tuedim. 
EQUES. 
T. crassicornis. 
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