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about half the length of the arms, and is nearly equal all around, 
but is, perhaps, a little broader between the dorsal arms. The 
suckers are small, yellowish white, a little prominent, arranged rather 
closely in a single median row. The largest ones are near the base 
of the arms, about the fifth to the eighth from the base; beyond 
these they decrease regularly to the tips of the arms, where they be- 
come small and close. The cirri are rather small, tapered, acute, 
placed alternately with the suckers and not very far from them, the 
interval being about equal to the diameter of the suckers ; they 
commence between the fifth and sixth suckers, and apparently 
continue to the tips of the arms, becoming gradually very small. 
On each of the arms there are thickened muscular appendages, simi- 
lar to those of the preceding species, but shorter and broader. They 
arise from the posterior face of the arm, nearly at right angles, at the 
point near where the interbrachial web joins (or becomes) the mar- 
ginal membrane of the arm, and are closely united to the web, appar - 
ently serving to strengthen it. Their length is about equal to the 
breadth of the arm. 
The color, so far as preserved in alcohol, is deep chocolate-brown 
on the inner surface of the arms and web, with a median band of 
somewhat darker brown occupying the inner face of the arms. On 
the upper surface of the web, head, and body the color is destroyed, 
but it appears to have been brown. 
Length of longest arms, 66 to 70™"; breadth of arms near base, 
7™™ ; breadth of head across eyes, 26"; diameter of eyes, 14™™ 5 
length of fins, 11" ; breadth, 6™"; length of arms from edge of 
intermediate web, 35"; diameter of largest sucker, 1™™ ; length of 
cirri, 2™™. 
Stauroteuthis syrtensis Verrill. 
Amer. Journ. Sci., xviii, p. 468, 1879, Trans. Conn. Acad., v, p. 382, pl. 32, figs 1 
—5, 1881; vi, p. 249, 1883. 
A small specimen, apparently identical with this species, was taken 
at station 2,180. In this the body is small, narrow, somewhat elon- 
gated or ovate in form, while the arms are very much elongated, with 
a very broad, loose web extending nearly to the end. The cirri are 
very long and slender, thread-like. ‘The suckers are rather small, lit- 
tle elevated, and wide apart. ‘The fins are relatively large, broadest 
at the base, which is placed well forward, lanceolate in form, taper- 
ing toward the end, which is blunt. The eyes are moderately large, 
