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of the Kermadec Islands as known to date. I have so indicated in 

 the title. At the same time the opportunity appears propitious for 

 publishing a few sketches and other illustrations additional to those 

 given in my earlier paper, and I trust the delay has not robbed 

 them of value. 



The new material reported comprises thirteen specimens, which I 

 find to be referable to seven species and the same number of genera 

 and families, as follows: 



1 Argonauta species (young). 



2 Polypus species (young). 



1 Onychoteuthis banksii (Leach) (young). 



1 Lampadioteuthis megaleia new genus and species. 



1 Abraliopsis ? (young). 



6 Eucleoteuthis species (young). 



1 Megalocranchia pardus, new species. 



The two species thus added to the previous list appear to be new 

 to science. One of them is so divergent from anything we know 

 that it is being made the type of a new genus and family. It 

 is somewhat surprising to find this form similar in many superficial 

 peculiarities to the wonderful Nematolampas regalis previously 

 described from Mr. Oliver's material, and scarcely inferior in interest 

 to its predecessor, even though the actual relationship of the two 

 does not appear an especially close one. For further observations 

 on these species of a somewhat general interest, I would refer the 

 reader to the concluding remarks offered in connection with the 

 description of L. 'megaleia. 



Altogether the results of the exploration of the Sunday Island 

 beaches by Messrs. Oliver, Iredale, and Bell have been without 

 precedent, so far as the littoral capture of cephalopods is concerned, 

 and inevitably causes one to ponder what ultimate harvest this 

 wonderful region holds in store for the teuthologist, that a mere 

 glimpse of wave-bound wrack from a single beach should prove so 

 astonishing. 



A complete list of all the cephalopods thus far known from the 

 waters of the Kermadec Islands, with the number of specimens 

 reported on, is given in the following table: 



Synopsis of the Cephalopoda of the Kermadec Islands. 



