CEPHALOPODS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



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minute distally, along the margins, and at the base of the club, whence they extend well down upon the 

 stalk, gradually diminishing all the while (pi. Lii, fig. 1-2). No hooks present in whatever form, but 

 the curious fixing apparatus so characteristic of Gonalus is evident as a series of small, rounded, whitish, 

 bead-like tubercles or pads extending along the dorsal margin of the sucker bearing area from its proximal 

 end upon the stalk well past the point of widest expansion of the club, and occurring in regular alterna- 

 tion with the minute suckers of the outermost row (pi. LV, fig. 7). 



Buccal membrane well developed; eight pointed, there being two lappets between both the dorsal 

 and the ventral arms, but none between the second and third pairs; copiously wrinkled within. 



Color in spirits (formalin and alcohol) everywhere a pale muddy white. 



The measurements of one of the best of the Albatross specimens, as well as the two large ones just 

 described, are given in the annexed table. 



MEAStfREMENTS OF GONATUS FABRICH. 



Locality. 



Albatross 

 station, 



4S". 



Puget 

 Sound, 

 Wash. 



Victoria, 

 B.C. 



Author's register no . 



98 



Total length, including tentacles 



Excluding tentacles 



Length of mantle (dorsal) 



Width of mantle 



Across fins 



Length of fin 



Widlh of head 



Length of dorsal arm 



Second arm 



Third arm 



Ventral arm 



Tentacle (total) ^ 



Sucker bearing area of tentacle. , 



J9S 

 275 

 153 

 45 

 100 

 80 

 4" 

 85 

 90 

 95 

 80 

 124 

 61 



30s 



250 



133 



37 



100 



7« 



4« 



83 



87 



91 



84 



149 



76 



Distribution: Davies Strait, off coast of Greenland (Fabricius, M011er, etc.); Iceland; Faroe Islands; 

 Jan Mayen; Porsangerf jord , Norway (Sars); coast of Finniark (Sars); off the coast of Ireland (iMassy); 

 Nice and Toulon, France (Joubin); south of Cape of Good Hope (Steenstrup); off Seal Island, Nova 

 Scotia (Verrill); south of Newport, Rhode Island (Verrill). 



Punta Arenas, Patagonia (Lonnberg, G. antarcticus); Japan (Steenstrup); Kuril Islands (Midden- 

 dorff); Bering Island (Dall). 



British Columbia — Vancouver Island (?). Washington, Puget Sound (?). California, Monterey 

 Bay (Albatross) and off San Nicolas Island (Albatross). Lower California, off Los Coronados Islands 

 (Albatross). 



In all, the following 11 specimens have been examined, the greater part of them obtained by the 



Albatross. 



Specimens of Gonatvs fabricii. 



Locality. 



Depth in 

 fathoms. 



Collector. 



WTiere deposited. 



Author's 



register 



no. 



Near Victoria, B. C 



Puget Sound, Wash 



Monterey Bay, Cal 



do 



do 



do 



do 



Oft San Nicolas Island. Cal 



Of! North Coronado Island, Lower Cali- 

 fornia. 



Salmon traps. 



724-1,000 

 755- 958 

 7SO- 766 

 309- 469 



32- 

 581- 

 257- 



J. B. Babcock. 1907, ... 

 Shrimp fishermen. 1909. 

 Albatross station 4544 . . 



4530. . 



4S'7.. 



4512.. 



4468. . 



4424. . 



4379.. 



Stanford Univ. Coll . 



do 



90. 

 88. 

 100 JUV. 



97 juv. 



96 juv. 



98 juv. 

 9S)UV. 



99 iuv. 



89 juv. 





