010 1NTK ' i I'll M.III 3, T'l 



dull ni f tin- tentacle, nearly :: feet in length, is occupied fa the 



re <>f tlir |i:ihn by two row- of 1,-ir^f -talked -ii'-kei-. ne;iily 



1 inch in diameter, fourteen in eaoli raw; :m alternating n>\\ of 



liuirteeii -mailer -ucker- ( j, in. <li:nn ) occiipio tin- margin MM 



Bide Of the |>:ilm; these outer sucker- h;il each :i denticu- 



1,-iled bony riii'_r of :il>'iit t weiilv-eiirht teeth, point in_: inward- 



rings <>!' tlir Inr'jrr inner suckers had probably been removed 



OF fallen nut before tile specimens were r\:i ininnl ). .hist l)el!e;)tll 



where the InrLT*' suckers end. there is :i cluster of v-ry >in:ill ODOfl 



;irr:in-el closely in six tr.-insverse rows. ;in<l the <-\treinity of tin- 



elul> h:i- :il- :i uTeat nnmlier of small suckers, whilst a few nearly 



le Ones are Scattered on the inner surface of t he peduncle. 



Rfosl of these had no dent icnlat ions on the rin^s. The heak has 



:i wide. strollLi' tooth alioilt the middle of the edii'e of the Upper 



inandihle. and a much narrower notch on the outer inaudible, on 



each side. These specimens are now in t he Museum of the Hoyal 



iety, at Dublin. 



In a collection of rare t ract s i-elat in^ to Irish history which 

 t'ormed ly a London bookseller named Thomas Thorpe, and 

 is now deposited in the library of the Royal Dublin Society, 

 there is a most curious record of the occurrence of an enormous 

 ciitth--|ish. The lirst three letters and the description are all 

 printed, together with a rude drawing, upon the same side of one 

 broad sheet, -printed in London for Francis Smith, at the 

 Klephant and ( 'ast le near t he Royal Exchange in Comhill." The 

 fourth It-tier is in manuscript, and the second broadsheet or 

 advert i-M-mriit was evidently printed in Dublin, SO as to be dis- 

 tributed in the form of a handbill. 



The drawing represents a cuttle-lish with broad ovate body 

 red by a loosely-folded mantle. A pointed extremity, or 

 tail, with what appears like the two lobes of a (in. is shown a^ 

 projecting In-yond the mantle. Tin- head bear< t \vu mormons 

 -. and above them rise on each side the ei^ht short arm-, each 

 be;uin- two rows of Dickers alon^ their entire length. In the 

 rent n- are seen the two longer arms or tentacle-, which art- 

 drawn as thick a- the rest, and are (piite bare and smooth, with 

 n> -neker-, taperini: outwards into a point, as if the Hub. or 

 iiided portion, had been torn oil'. Rut t he most ext raordina ry 



