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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 month of the Tees. The 

 fisherman who obtained it (a carefal collector) had never 

 seen one like it, though he had been very familiar with 

 T. crassicomis, 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 greater 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. 



Tuedise. 



EQUES. 

 T. crassicorni*. 



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