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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [July, 



Type.— Cat. No. 9,639 (part), Yale University Museum; a male. 

 Cotypes of same sex in Yale University Museum and the author's 



collection. 



Type Locality.— Bay of Yeddo (Tokio), Japan; Edward S. Morse. 



Distribution. — Matsushima, Rikuzen (!); Bay of Tokio (!); 

 Enoshima, Sagami (!); Aburatsubo, Sagami (Wtilker); Nagasaki, 

 Hiz en (Joubin). 



Specimens Examined: — 



pj Where Author's 



Sp. Locality. Sex. Collectors. deposited. Register. 



v Bay of Tokio c? E.S.Morse Yale Univ. Ill 



Mus., 

 Cat. 9,639 

 (cotypes) 

 1 Bay of Tokio & E.S.Morse S.S.B., 112 



(cotype) 

 5 Bav of Tokio 9 E.S.Morse Yale Univ. 390 



Mus., 

 Cat. 9,639a 

 1 Bay of Tokio ,9 E. S. Morse S.S.B., 391 



1 Matsushima, Rikuzen... * 9 L.S.J.U., 392 



Cat. 2,019 



1 Enoshima, Sagami 9 A. Owston L.S.J. IT., 389 



Cat. 2,020 



Since the establishment of the genus and the elimination of 

 Euprymna morsei, Inioteuthis has been enriched by the addition of 

 but one other species, the J. maculosa Goodrich 1896. In the mean- 

 while the actual status of the group has been the occasion of con- 

 siderable discussion. Unquestionably, the most important known 

 difference separating Inioteuthis from Sepiola is the absence of a^ 

 gladius in the former, the generic significance of which feature in a 

 case such as the present is certainly not yet fully established. 



/. maculosa does not seem to differ very strikingly from the Japanese 

 species and further information regarding it would be very useful. 

 It has been reported from the Andaman Islands, Ceylon, and the 

 Persian Gulf. 



Genus EUPRYMNA Steenstrup, 1887. 



Euprymna morsei (Verrill, 1881) Steenstrup, 1887. PI. VI, figs. 1, 2. 



Inioteuthis Morsei Verrill, 1881, p. 417, footnote. 



? Sepiola bursa Pfeffer, 1884, p. 6, fig. 6. 



Inioteuthis Morsei Appellof, 1886, p. 15, pi. 2, figs. 15, 16; pi. 3, figs. 16, 19, 



20, 23. 

 Inioteuthis morsei Hoyle, 1886, pp. 17, 112, etc., pi. 14, figs. 1-9. 

 orymna Morsei Steenstrup, 1887. p. 66 [20]. 



