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of Edinburgh, Session 1884-85. 
Gladius , resembling that of Ommastrephes in front, but expanded 
in the posterior third. 
Fig. 2. — Bathyeuthis abyssicola, Hoyle. 
Bathyteuthis abyssicola , Hoyle. 
Bathyteuthis abyssicola , Hoyle, Narr. Chall. Exp., vol. i. p. 272, fig. 
108, 1885. 
The Body is subcylindrical, somewhat narrowing towards and 
bluntly rounded at the posterior extremity. The fins are small, 
separate; each is somewhat rectangular in shape, with rounded angles, 
and attached to the body by one angle. 
The mantle-margin is almost transverse, but projects slightly in 
the dorsal median line, and forms a shallow sinus behind each eye 
and the siphon. The mantle-connective consists of a long linear 
ridge, extending quite to the margin, and fitting into a similar but 
somewhat shorter and broader groove on the base of the siphon, 
which is short, tapering, and bluntly pointed, fits into a shallow 
depression below the head, but has no dorsal bridles. 
The Head is much broader than the body, being distended 
