168 ; CUTTLE-FISHES. 
remaining agreed in dimensions with the one preserved. This is 
a comparatively stout species, having, according to ‘the measure- 
ments made, of the last named individual, a body about ten feet 
long and three or four feet in diameter; the two long, slender, — 
extensile arms were forty-two feet long; the shorter arms about _ 
six feet long and nine inches in diameter. One of the jaws of 
this species resembles the one figured by Dr. Packard (vol. vii, } 
p. 93, fig. 10) as probably Archi- 
teuthis dua Steenstrup, and ms 
be the same species. 
A smaller specimen was cap- 
tured in December, in Logic Bag 
Fig. 54. 
in herring ‘nets. Photographs 
were made of this: one showing — 
the entire body, somewhat muti- 
lated anteriorly ; the other show- 
ing the head with the ten arms 
attached. Tie body of ths | 
specimen was over seven feet 
long, and between five and six 
feet in circumference ; the ai 
Ø| but short, thick, and emargminn 
K. posteriorly on each side, the-€ r 
of the body being acute ; ie 
end; the tips slender and a¢ 
the largest suckers 1:25 inch 
| oligo pallida, one-half nat. size. dianieter, with serrated edges 
eight short arms were ea 
feet long ; the largest two were ten inches in cireumfert 
se; the others were nine, eight and seven inches. Theses 
o arms taper to slender acute tips, and each bears about ont be 
dred large, bell-shaped suckers, with serrated margins. ae 
"a s bears about one hundred and sixty suckers 
on, all of which are Gentioainiad i the 
