Hi!'. msTToTKUTHIS. 



with very close acute teeth. longest on the broader side; tenta- 

 cles twelve times MS long MS tlic body. with Mil occasional sucker. 

 MIX! with M lanceolate club covered with peculiar. lonu' peduncu- 

 hited suckers. Shell very HMrrow ; the lowest part with the 



longest Mild broadest expMiision. 



Mediterranean. 



('. IJoNPLANDi. Verany. I'l. TO. ligs. 111. *21:\. 



Kody elongate. conical; hcMd inoderMle ; iins half the length 

 of the body. together rhomboidal : sessile Mrnis suluihite. with 

 rounded tubercles Mt the end'. unequal. order oi' length -5. -. 1.4 ; 

 tentMcles lost ? Shell very narrow in the middle. narrow above 

 Mild dilated below. 



, )( . N. lat., 390 W. long., Atlantic Ocean. 



HISTIOTEUTHIS, 



11. BONKLLIANA, Fer. PI. 71. fi<i's. ^74 i>Sl. 



Txuly sliort. old use; lie;ul very hiru'e; hejul. body Mild arms 

 covered with scat-tered tubercles; sessile amis unequal, tleshy : 

 lin^ M-iiiieirculai-. broad. Shell broad, lanceolate, with a second 

 smaller shell placed on its interior face. 



Total length. 400 mill.: length of body. 70 mill. 



Mediterranean. 



11. \\\ PPELLII, Vci-Miiy. IM. 71. (in-. '>*'>; pi. 7L>. lirs. ^s:}. -2S4. 



IJody. head and arms ^ranulai- ; head large; second and third 

 pairs of arms lmo-er: lii-s! and fourth shorter. Shell oval. 

 lanceolate, attenuated in front, acuminated behind ; with a 

 >ec<!iid >maller shell placed on its interior face. 



Total length nearly three times that of H. Bonelliana. 



Mediterranean. 

 II. roi.uxsn. Verrill. 



A very lai'Li'" and handsome species, \viih a broad thin web 

 extending between and nearly to the ends of the six upper 

 arms. Tentacles about '1 feet lonir. slender, t he club broad, oval. 

 bordered by a membrane, and ending in a taperinii' tip. on tin- 

 back of wliich is a keel enlarii'iiiij backward to the end. where it 

 forms a rounded lobe. The most expanded portion of the club 

 bear* live rows of MieUers. with finely serrate rinu- : two rows 

 contain much the larnvsl >uckers. four or five in each, the more 

 central of the two row* containing four sucker* larger than the 



