from the South-ivest Coast of Ireland. 381 



Length of arms : — 



1st on right lo7 mm. 1st on left 158 



2nd „ 147 „ 2nd „ lo2 



3rd „ 95 „(hect.). 3rd „ 147 



4th „ 133 „ 4th „ 133 



Approximate number of suckers, 1st arm on right, 144. 

 Family Gonatidaa. 



Genus Gonatus, Gray, 1849. 

 Gonatus Fahricii, Lichtenstein, 



Nine specimens taken in the trawl at depths varying- from 

 465-6G6 fath. All were examined without success for any 

 trace of a hectocotylus. The largest specimen measured 

 275 nnn, in length, and the smallest 118 mm. Not met with 

 before in British-and-Irish waters. 



Family Enoploteuthidae. 



Genus Octopodoteutiiis, liiippell, 1884. 



Octopodoteutliis sicula, Rlippell, 1884. 



A specimen taken in the trawl at 550-570 fath. This 

 individual agrees closely with Dr. Jatta's descri|)tion. Tiie 

 tips of all the arms being mutilated, the sex cannot be 

 determined without injury to the specimen. This species 

 appears never to have been met with outside the Mediterranean 

 before, or of such a size. It measures 117 mm. across the 

 fins; from end of body to mantle-margin 107 mm.; from 

 end of mantle-margin to bifurcation of first pair of arms 

 35 mm. 



The siphon projects 17 mm. above the mantle-margin. 

 No trace exists of the roots of the tentacles, which in this 

 species are moulted or re-absorbed in youth. 



Family Histioteuthidse. 

 Genus HiSTlOTEUTHiS, Orbigny. 

 Histioteuthis honelliana^ F(5russac. 



Two specimens. One with a total length of 31 mm. was 

 taken in the triangle net at 70-80 fath. from the surface over 

 soundings of about 800 fath. The otlier measures 12'J mm. 

 and was taken in the sprat-net on trawl at 775-795 fath. 

 The smaller sj)ecimen possesses no trace of web between the 

 arms, or of the black elongate swellings present in the larger 

 specimen at the tips of all except the ventral arni.s. 



Not previously recorded from 13ritish-and-lrish waters. 



