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ON A CEPHALOPOD NEW TO CALIFORNIA 



WITH A NOTE ON ANOTHER 



SPECIES 



S. S. BEREY 



The two species of cephalopod mollusks (one squid and one 

 octopus) which are the subject of the following notes were obtained 

 by Mr. C. W. Metz during the 1911 session of the Pomona College 

 Marine Laboratory at Laguna, Orange County, California. Although 

 so few of this class of animals were taken, one of the two specimens 

 submitted to me represents a species new not only to California, but 

 apparently to the entire western coast of North America as well. I 

 am indebted to the gentleman named for the opportunity to examine 

 and report upon the material. 



Figure 44. Funnel of Onychoteuthis banksii 



Laid open along the medio-ventral line to show the funnel organ (semi-dia- 

 grammatic). 



Onychoteuthis banksii (Leach 1817) Ferussac 

 1817 Loligo banksii Leach, Zool. Miseell., vol. 3, p. 141. 

 1826 Onychoteuthis banksii Ferussac, in D'Orbiguy, Ann. Sci. 



Nat. (1), vol. 7, p. 151. 

 1879 Onychoteuthis lanksii Tryon, Man. Couch. (1), vol. 1, p. 



168, pi. 73, figs 291-294. 

 1908 Oin/chotriifhi* lifuiksii Pfeffer, Nord. Plankton, IV, Ceph., 



' p. 65, figs. 71-77. 



A single female specimen of this widespread oceanic species was 

 obtained from J. H. Souder, who captured it in a seine off the en- 

 trance to Newport Bay, S. S. B. No. 295. In a report written some 



