f 
-“ bony-fish,” upon which it probably feeds. 
margin is concave in the middle, with a projecting 
angle on each side. Caudal fin large, about as broad 
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ones, which form two regular alternating rows, of twelve each, 
are about an inch in diameter. 
The general form and structure of these giants may be best 
understood by comparison with the common small kinds found on 
our shores, to which, in fact, the large ones are closely allied ; 
moreover, their habits are in many respects quite similar. 
Of the smaller “squids,” at least six species occur on the coast 
of New England, but some of these are quite rare. 
Loligo pallida Verrill (figs. 54, 55). On the southern coast of 
New England, especially in Long Island Sound and near New 
York, the species represented by figs. 54 and 59 » ic is. 
often occurs in large numbers, and is frequently cap- 
tured in great quantities in seines, with menhaden or 
‘This species I have recently described under the 
name of Loligo pallida.* 
he body is stout, tapering rapidly backward. 
aa border of the mantle with a prominent, ob- 
tusely rounded, me lian doisal lobe, from which the 
margin recedes on each side; on the lower side the 
as long, more than half as long as the body. Siphon 
large and stout; upper pair of arms considerably. 
smaller and shorter than the others, slender at tips, 
margined along the inner dorsal ridge with a thin 
membrane. Second pair of arms stouter and longer, 
triquetral; “slightly margined on the outer angle. 
Third pair much stouter and considerably longer, 
with a membranous fold along the middle of the outer 
surface, which expands into a thin membrane toward gee of Loligo 
the end. Tentacular arms long and slender, in ex- 
_ tension longer than the body, the portion that bears suckers form- 
ing about one-third the whole length; in the female the larger 
= suckers on the middle of this portion are not so ‘large as the 
largest on the other arms, and are arranged in about four 
rows; those near the tips of the arms are very small and crowded. 
A * Report of the U. S. Comshistioner of Fish and Fisheries, for 1871 and 1872, p 
Osa 20, Pri 101, 101a. The description and figures are here reproduced with po 
