eee especially on the back, and the red and brown shades predomi- 
170 CUTTLE-FISHES. 
In the male the principal suckers of the tentacular arms are very 
much larger than in the female, and considerably exceed those of 
the other arms ; they form two alternating rows along the middle 
of the arm, and external to them there is a row of smaller suck- 
ers on each side, alternating with them; the suckers toward the 
tips are very numerous, small and crowded; outside of the 
suckers, on each side, there is a marginal membrane with a scal- 
loped edge; another membranous fold runs along the outer sur- 
face and expands into a broad membrane near the end ; the arms 
of the ventrąl pair are intermediate in length between those of 
the second and third pairs. Ground-color of the body, head, 
arms and fins, pale, translucent, yellowish white ; entire ventral 
surface pale, with small, distant, broWnish circular spots, which 
Fig. 68. are nearly obsolete on the siphon and. arms; the 
upper surface is covered with pale brown, une- 
qual, circular spots, which are not crowded, hav- 
ing spaces of whitish between them; the spots — 
are more sparse on the head and arms, but some- 
what clustered above the eyes. The general ap- 
pearance of the animal when fresh is unusually 
< | pale and gelatinous. The ‘‘pen” is broad, quill- 
| shaped, translucent and amber-colored. A me- 
dium-sized male specimen, préserved in alcohol, | 
5) | measures 145™™ from the base of the dorsal arms 
| of the posterior end of the body ; length of body, 
120""; length of caudal fin, 70™™; breadth oo 4 
fin, 75™™; length of first pair of arms, 42™; of 
second pair, 50™; of third, 60"; of tentacular — : 
arms, 150™™"; of ventral pair, on. mre 
Loligo Pealii Lesueur * (figs. 56, 57). This — 
a similar to the preceding species in structure, 
= =~ . but is more elongated in form and much more 
Bes roneo ts highly colored. The color when living is Vey- 
— changeable, owing to the alternate contractions — 
= of the -spots or color-vesicles, but these spots are much crowded, 
s eo nate, So as to give a general reddish or purplish-brown color. 
This species owe represented by plate 25, fi dition of Goulds 
: g. 340, in the last editi 
’ Fibri) This Miwa y was — referred to Ommastrephes s Bartram is 
