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coast and not the similar or nearly allied forms from the West Indian 

 and Florida regions, which may or may not be the same species. 

 Specimens have been reported from the latter region which are appar- 

 ently intermediate in character between Lolliguncula brevis and 

 Loligo pealii. Of such a nature are two very large adult females from 

 Charlotte Harbor, Fla., in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 possibly the same as those in the same museum from the same locality 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 3. 



Fig. 4. 



Figs. 2-4. — Camera drawings of homy rings from the suckers of the third arms 

 of: 2 — Lolliguncula (?) panamensis n. sp. [58]; 3 — Lolliguncula brevis 

 (Blainv.), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [46]; 4 — Loligo (?) sp., Charlotte Harbor, 

 Fla. [54]. 



Fig. 7. 



Figs. 5-7. — Camera drawings of horny rings from the tentacular suckers of: 

 5 — Lolliguncula (?) 'panamensis; 6 — Lolliguncula brevis; 7 — Loligo (?) sp., 

 Charlotte Harbor, Fla. 



listed as L. brevis by Verrill (Ceph. N. E. Amer., 1881, p. 345). Here 

 the fins are somewhat sagittal in shape, very much as in juvenile 

 L. pealii; the animal is much larger; the gladius has a longer and 

 narrower blade than the Brazilian brevis, and there are two lateral 

 thickenings on each wing; the horny rings of the sessile arms have 

 from 8 to 13 elongate, squarely truncate teeth on the upper margin 

 (in L. brevis they are nearly obsolete), while those of the larger ten- 

 tacular suckers have about 24 large, acute teeth alternating with nearly 



