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rest. A row of small tubercular suckers, ranged singly or 

 alternating two by two extends for about six inches along the 

 stalks of the tentacles ; and minute serrate suckers also cover 

 the tip of the club, beyond its expanded portion. Sessile arms 

 stout, three-cornered, tapering to slender tips, each bearing two 

 rows of globular suckers, having a small, oblique opening, and 

 few blunt teeth. The ventral arms are united together, near the 

 base, by a web. which also unites to the main web, in the median 

 plane. A narrow web, arising from the outer angles of the 

 arms, also unites all the arms together for a short distance above 

 their bases. Beak with very sharp black tips ; a broad mem- 

 brane, rising into six prominent angles, surrounds the mouth. 

 Outer surface of head and arms covered with large, very slightly 

 raised warts or tubercles, which are dark blue, with a whitish 

 centre; a circle of them surrounds the eyelids. Color, between 

 the warts, purplish brown, with dark brown spots and reddish 

 specks; wel) and inner surface of arms uniform dark reddish 

 brown; suckers yellowish white ; tentacles light orange brown. 

 Length of tentacles, 24 to 25 in.; of arms, 1, 14 in.; 2, 17 



in.; 3, 17*25 in.; 4, 14-25 in. 



Off Nova Scotia. 



Family VIII. THYSANOTEUTH1DJ3. 



Genus THYSANOTEUTHIS, Troschel. 

 T. RHOMBUS, Troschcl. PI. 72. tigs. 285-28 7. 

 Characters those of the genus. 



Length of arms 3, 100 mill.; 2,. 53 mill.; 4, 35 mill.; 1, 34 

 mill.; length of tentacles, 104 mill. ; of head and body, 115 mill. 



Messina. 



Resembles the mutilated cephalopod from Cape of Good 

 Hope, which Gray described as Sepioteuthis major. See fig. 222. 



T. ELEGANS, Troschel. PL 72, figs. 288, 289. 



This is very much smaller in size, and the fins are much more 

 rounded in outline. 



Proportionate length of arms 3, 13 mill. ; 2, 10 mill. ; 1, 8 

 mill.; 4, 7 mill.; length of head and body, 19 mill. 1 think it 



probably the young of T. Rhombus. 



Messina. 



