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Breadth of largest horny hoops of ace- 
tabula, about . ..- . -.. ~ «0.2 inches. 
Reference to the Diagrams. 
1. Figure of Loligo Eblane, half the natural size. 
2, Termination of tentacula, with acetabula, natural size. 
3. Dorsal lamina, natural size. 
4, Beak, natural size. 
5. Magnified figure of an acetabulum, or sucker, to show 
its peduncle. 
6, 7. Magnified figures of horny hoops of acetabula. 
It was thus shown to be of much shorter proportions 
than the Loligo vulgaris. Its body is urn-shaped. The large 
fin, which is somewhat inequilateral, approximates to an 
ellipse in form, and resembles not a little the fin of Loligo 
Brongnartii, as figured by Ferussac, to which it also bears 
likeness, in the structure of its five-ribbed dorsal lamina; 
but it differs from this animal in its general proportions, and 
in the horny hoops of its acetabula, which have in each of the 
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