Ill 
of Edinburgh, Session 1884-85. 
Habitat. — Between Prince Edward Island and the Crozets; 1375 
fathoms (Station 146). 1 specimen, sex'? 
Cirroteuthis meangensis , Hoyle. 
Cirroteuthis meangensis, Hoyle, Ann. and Mag. Mat. Hist., ser. 5 vol. 
xv. p. 234, 1885. 
The Body is much distorted, but appears to have been subglobular 
in form. The mantle-opening is very small, and fits closely around 
the base of the siphon, which is small and bluntly conical, with a 
still smaller pimple-like extremity ; on either side there extends 
from the dorso-lateral base a curved fold of membrane, which loses 
itself in the mantle. The fins are about equal in length to the 
breadth of the body, narrow and pointed at the extremity, and 
thickened towards the posterior margin. The dorsal cartilage is 
elongated transversely. 
The Head is exceedingly short, and the eyes large and spheroidal. 
The Arms are subequal, and about three times as large as the body 
in the present shrunken condition of the specimen ; they taper 
rather rapidly to slender points. The umbrella extends on the 
dorsal side of each arm to within 1 cm. of its extremity, whilst 
on the ventral side it reaches only four-fifths along it ; the arms 
lie in the umbrella and are not united to it by any intermediate 
vertical web. The suckers are about sixty to seventy in number, 
small and subequal ; they are at equal intervals for the greater part 
of the arm, but closer near the extremity. The cirri are short, 
stout, and conical, the largest 2 mm. in length; on the ventral 
arms they commence between the fourth and fifth suckers, and 
extend to the fiftieth sucker, beyond which there are twenty-one, 
which gradually decrease ; on the dorsal arms the cirri commence 
between the sixth and seventh suckers, and continue to the fifty-fifth, 
beyond which there are nine. 
The Surface is smooth. 
The Colour of the body is creamy white, of the arms and umbrella 
deep madder-brown. The suckers and cirri are paler. 
Habitat. — Off the Meangis Islands, near the Philippines, 500 
fathoms (Station 214). 1 specimen, sex? 
