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scattered along the tentacular-anns, as do our specimens. The rounded 

 tubercles that always accompany these smooth-rimmed suckers are 

 not mentioned, but doubtless they were also present. The beak was 

 5-25 inches long and 3-5 broad, dark reddish brown, "with a large 

 tooth in both margins of the inner mandible and a much smaller 

 notch on each side of the outer mandible." 



Mr. More believed this to be distinct from the Newfoundland 

 species and referred it to A. dun', but his description agrees closely 

 with the corresponding parts of A. Harveyi (No. 5) described by 

 me, excej)t in the relatively somewhat greater size of the sessile 

 arms at base. In this respect, howevei", it is equalled or surpassed by 

 our No. 14, and by others of the Newfoundland examples. This may 

 also be only a peculiai'ity of the female. The measurements indicate 

 a specimen intermediate in size between our Nos. 5 and 14, but the 

 description is not sufficient to indicate with certainty to which of 

 our species it was nearest related. A more detailed description, with 

 figures of the suckers and odontophore, would probably settle this 

 point. Mr. More supposed that the lateral suckers of the tentacular- 

 club were larger in his example than in A. Harveyi, but that is not 

 the case. 



A large cephalopod, referred doubtfully to Ommastrephes, has been 

 recorded from Japan and described by Dr. F. Hilgendorf.* It was 

 taken on the east coast of Japan, N, lat. 35° to 36.° It had been 

 split open, salted, and partly dried, and the viscera had been re- 

 moved. The ends or clubs of the tentacles were also gone. In this 

 condition it was on exhibition in Yedo. The following are the meas- 

 urements given : Tip of tail to front edge of mantle, 1 86''"' (6 feet, 

 1 inch) ; mantle to mouth, about 41*^^'" (1 foot, 5 inches) ; longer ses- 

 sile arms, 197'"' (6"5 feet) ; from tip of tail to tip of sessile arms, 414*^^"' ; 

 total expanse across outstretched tentacles, 600'^"' ; circumference of 

 mantle (breadth as cut open), 130''"'; length of caudal fin, fiO'^™ ; 

 breadth of caudal fin in middle, 45"" ; breadth of forward end of cau- 

 dal fin, 28*^"'; diameter of posterior tip, 1'"'; tongue of funnel, 10'"^ 

 broad, 6'"' long ; eye-opening, which was oblong-oval, without an ob- 

 vious sinus, 19'^"'; distance between eyes, 26'™ ; diameter of oval, skin 

 of lip, 12'"' by 8''"; breadth of sessile arms, ll'^"^ ; of tentacles, 2 to 

 3"" ; diameter of horny rings of suckers, on base, 1 •5'"" ; height, 

 Q.-mm , ii|^im\)(ii. of denticles, 37. 



* Mittheilungen <ier deutschen G-esellschaft fur Natur und Valkerkimde Ostasiens. 

 Herausgegeben von dem Torstande, 1st Heft, p. 21, May, 1873, Yokohama, Japan, 

 See also American Journal of Science, vi, p. 337, Sept,, t873, 



