230 A. E. Verrill — North American Cephalopods. 



The largest of all the suckers are near the middle of the second pair 

 of lateral arms, from the sixth to the sixteenth, and especially from 

 the ninth to the fourteenth; the diameter of the ninth is 10""", the 

 edge of its rim, 8""". On the dorsal arms the eighth to the thirteenth 

 are the largest ; the diameter of the ninth is 7'"'" ; edge of homy rim, 

 5'"'". On the third pair the eighth to the fourteenth ai'e largest; the 

 diameter of the tenth is 8""" ; its rim 6'"'". On the ventral arras the 

 fourteenth to the twentieth are largest; the diameter of the tifteenth 

 is7-5'"'"; its rim 5*5""". On the ventral arms the rows of suckers 

 are more separated than on the others, its inner face being wider. 

 On the lateral arms, towai'd the base, the two rows are nearer to- 

 gether, while the suckers of each row are distant, so that they almost 

 form one irregular row, at first. The suckers are all ^ ery oblique, 

 with the horny rims very low or narrow in front, and very high on 

 the outer side ; these rings are dark brown, but the teeth have a 

 golden luster. 



The thick fleshy margin, outside the denticulated edge of the horny 

 ring, is completely covered all around, by a series of thin, bracket- 

 shaped, horny plates, light brown in color, arranged radially and 

 movable with the membrane to which they are attached for the 

 most of their length; both the outer and the inner ends are free and 

 turned upward, like a small tooth or denticle ; those of the inner end 

 are mostly acute, and form a circle of minute movable denticles, 

 nearly in line witb the large teeth of the horny ring, five to ten occu- 

 pying the intervals between the large teeth of the largest suckers ; 

 those plates that stand opposite the teeth of the horny ring are 

 shorter than the others, and often broader, and have no denticle on 

 the flat or upcurved inner ends, which fit to the form of the base of 

 the tooth in front of them ; the outer ends are abruptly bent upward 

 and often inward, forming a denticle or flattened hook, usually 

 rounded at the end. These marginal plates vary greatly in width 

 and form, even on the same sucker, according to position, and small, 

 imperfectly developed, wedge-shaped ones are interpolated between 

 the larger ones, around the peripher5\ 



One of the largest suckers (the twelfth of the second pair of arms) 

 has 22 teeth on the horny ring ; of these five are small, but sharp, on 

 the middle of the inner border ; nine, on the outer border, are largest ; 

 and four, on each side, are intermediate in size. The median tooth on 

 tbe outer margin is largest, and the one next to it, on each side, is a 

 little smaller than the second one from it. The thirteenth sucker of 

 the ventral arms has, on its rings, eighteen denticles ; of these nine 



