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end of the body. Below, pale flesh-colour, spotted as above, but spots much 
larger and further apart. The funnel, sides of sessile arms, and under sur- 
face of fins white." Tentacles white, with exception of a row of purple spots 
on the back of the club. 
Total length 1-4 inch. Length of body 1 inch. Length of head °4 inch. 
Hab.—Wellington. 
Architeuthis, Steenstrup. 
Oplysninger om Atlanter, Collossale Bleksprutter, Férhandlinger Skand. 
Natur., 1856, vii., p. 182, Christiana, 1857. 
Size large ; body stout, nearly round, swollen in the middle. Caudal 
fin very small, sagittate. Head large, short. Eyes very large, oblong- 
ovate, with well developed lids and anterior sinus. Sessile arms stout, 
their suckers large, very oblique, with the edges of the horny rings strongly 
serrate, especially on the outer margin. The margin has around it a free- 
edged membrane, which closely surrounds the denticles when the sucker is 
used, and allows a vacuum to be produced. Tentacular arms very long and 
slender in extension, the proximal part of the club furnished with an 
irregular group of small, smooth-rimmed suckers, intermingled with rounded 
tubercles on each arm, the suckers on one arm corresponding with the 
tubercles on the other, so that by them the two arms may be firmly attached 
together without injury, and used in concert; other similar suckers and 
tubercles, doubtless for the same use, are distantly scattered along the slender 
part of these arms, one sucker and one tubercle always occurring neat 
together. The internal shell is thin and very broad, expanding from the 
anterior to the posterior end, with divergent ribs (Verrill). 
A. verrilli, sp.nov. Fig. 1, 
Body short, stout and nearly round, dilated in the middle. 
Sessile arms unequal in size and length; the first, second and fourth 
pairs about same length as body and head together, third pair longer nd 
stouter ; all armed with similar suckers, but varying in number, the 
pair carrying more than either of the others. 
fentacular arms, when extended, nearly three times the length of head 
and body. 
Caudal fin obcordate, small dorsal ; from tip to front margin about on? 
third the length of the body; terminating nicaeey ail BT 
Suckers stalked. 
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