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where there are the rudiments of cirrhi, distinctly manifested 

 when the animal is alive, hut becoming obsolete and apt to 

 be overlooked in dead specimens. The eyes are small but 

 conspicuous, and have no eye-lids. The eight arms (each 

 of which is often a foot in length) are unequal, united at 

 their bases by a strong web, which connects them for some 

 distance, about a fourth of their length, and is faintly decur- 

 rent on their free portions. The suckers are ranged in a close 

 row on their under surfaces. Dr. Grant reckoned one hun- 

 dred and eleven of them on each arm of a specimen, the 

 arms of which were a foot long. Each sucker is round, 

 sessile, strongly margined and radiated within. These 

 organs become very small towards the extremities of the 

 arm. As in all the kinds of cuttle-fishes the colouring 

 varies greatly, according to the liveliness of the animal, 

 and probably also according to the locality. Dr. Grant 

 describes this species as marked with small reddish brown 

 spots on the back, and being smooth and light-coloured on 

 the fore-part. Professor Macgillivray's example in spirits 

 was dusky above, smooth, and yellowish white below. 

 Whenever we have taken it ourselves, and observed it 

 when full of vivacity, it has exhibited a rich reddish or 

 sienna brown clouded with darker and lighter blotches on 

 the back and head ; pale below. Over the eyes we have 

 observed a bluish tinge or blotch in the region of the cirrhi. 

 The eyes themselves were intense blue, with whitish eye- 

 lids. The upper surface of arms was speckled and clouded 

 with rich red-brown, becoming pale tawny on their sides. 

 The web of the arms was speckled with brown. The 

 siphon was pale, with brown specks, but no blotches. The 

 suckers were pale or white, tinged with a circle of tawny 

 within the ring. The region around the mouth was pale. 

 We have given two figures of this interesting cuttle-fish, 



