ONTCHOTEUTHID^ : ANCISTROTEUTHIS. 55 



Hah. Indian Ocean. 



a. Borneo. ? In spirits. Half-grown. Presented by Capt. 



Sir Edward Belcher, C.B. R.N. 

 h. SheUofa. 



c. New Zealand. In spirits. Adult. Presented by A. Sin- 



clair, M.D. R.N. 



d. Shell of c. 



7. ANCISTROTEUTHIS. 



Body smooth. — Tentacular arms with a round group of small cups 

 with rings at the base and apex of the club ; and with two 

 alternating series of hooks ; the upper series the largest. — Shell 

 horny, linear, very narrow, gradually widening to the front 

 or upper end ; sides thickened on the edge ; apex conical, long, 

 and obliquely produced, horny. — Otherwise like Onychoteuthis. 



* Body smooth. 



1. AjSCISTROTEUTKIS LlCHTENSTEIUn. 



Head large, with eight longitudinal ridges. Body elongate, nar- 

 rowed posteriorly, produced. Fins triangular, together rhom- 

 boidal. Sessile arms subulate, unequal ; in length, 4, 3, 2, 1 ; 

 cups very much crowded ; rings with entire edges ; dorsal pair 

 rounded behind ; second pair slightly ; third pair broadly webbed 

 in the middle, externally; fourth pair webbed externally at 

 the base. Tentacular arms ; the basal group of cups twenty- 

 one, about half closed ; the apical group sixteen or seventeen, 

 all open, and with rings ; hooks twenty-two. Shell depressed, 

 narrowed, transparent ; apex longly produced, solid, cartilagi- 

 nous, compressed. 



Onychoteuthis Bellonii Feruss. 8f UOrh. Ceph. Acet. 1835. 

 Onychoteuthis Lichtensteinii Feruss. MS. 1834 ; Feruss. et UOri. 



Ceph. Acet. Onych. t. 8. anim., t. 14. f. 1—3. shell, 1839; UOrh. 



Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 391. t. 26. f. 8—12. 



Hah. The Mediterranean, near Nice. 



a. Mediterranean, Messina. In spirits. Adult. 

 h. The shell of «. 



c. Mediterranean. In spirits. Adult. Presented by P. B. 

 Webb, Esq. 



2. ANCISTROTEUTHIS KrOHNH. 



Tentacular arms short ; club with a series of hooks on one, and of 

 small cups on the other, margin. Shell linear, narrow at the 

 base, margined on the edge, rather wider above the middle ; 

 the apex with a conical produced tip. 



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