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The most remarkable anatomical character observed in this spec- 

 imen is found in the form and arrangement of the teeth on the 

 "lingual ribbon," or odontophore, for in this respect it differs 

 widely from all other known Cephalopods. 



The ordinary squids and cuttle-fishes all have these teeth 



middle rows being generally two or three-pronged, as in Loligo 

 Fig. 9. 



pallida (fig. 9), while the lateral rows have long, simple, fang-like 

 teeth. But in this species (fig. 10), the teeth are very irregularly 

 scattered over the surface of the broad thin membrane, and it is 

 difficult to trace the rows, if such they can be called, for the 

 arrangement seems to be somewhat in irregular quincunx. The 



