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[Feb., 



At any rate it is remarkable that the Sunday Island beaches 

 should yield so extensive a series of bizarre types, and that with 



the exception of an ommastre- 

 phid every squid collected 

 there is the possessor of sys- 

 tems of dermal organs which 

 we must assume are photo- 

 genic. 



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Fig. 16. — Abralia 

 astrolineata, lat- 

 eral view of third 

 hook from base of 

 right t e n t a c 1 e 

 club [408], X 30, 

 camera drawing 

 from mount in 

 balsam. 



Fig. 15. — Abralia 

 astrolineata, inner 

 face of right ten- 

 tacle club of tvpe 

 [408], X 8, mainly 

 a camera draw- 

 ing. 



Family ENOPLOTEUTHIDiE. 



Genus ABRALIA Gray, 1849. 

 12. Abralia astrolineata Berry, 1914. 



1914. Abralia astrolineata 

 Berry, Trans. N. Z. Inst., 46, 

 p. 145, pi. 10. 



An illustration of the ten- 

 tacle club of this species is 

 supplied in fig. 15, and of a hook therefrom in fig. 

 16. 



The statement on p. 145 of the original de- 

 scription regarding the discrepancy in the num- 

 ber of hooks on the two tentacle clubs of the 

 type specimen is just reversed; the right club 

 shows a fifth hook, the left, only the four large 

 ones. 



Genus ABRALIOPSIS Joubin, 1896. 



13. I Abraliopsis hoylei (Pfeffer, 1884). Pi. IX, fig. l. 



?1884. EnophtevMs Hoylei Pfeffer, Ceph. Hamburg Mus., p. 17, fig. 22-22b. 

 ?1896. Abraliopsis Hoylei Joubin, Bull. Soc. Sci. Ouest, 5, p. 33, etc. 

 1914. 1 Abraliopsis hoylei Berry, Trans. N. Z. Inst,, 46, p. 148. 



The specimen previously recorded [S. S. B. 400] is now figured 

 on PI. IX, fig. 1. 



Abraliopsis C?) species. PI. IX, fig. 3. 



A small abralioid in the second collection offers some interesting 

 peculiarities [S. S. B. 419], and I am not certain that it represents 

 the same species as the preceding, though this will quite likely prove 

 to be the case in the end. 



The only doubtful character is that each arm of the ventral pair 

 appears to terminate in a slender filament instead of the usual 

 beaded photophores, but these filaments are quite badly damaged 

 in the specimen so that their exact nature is difficult to make out. 

 The two rows of hooks on the ventral arms persist even onto the 



