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What may be the nature of the lateral swellings observed near the 

 posterior tip of the body, and whether they may in any way be homologized 

 with the photogenic organs which occupy an analogous position in Nemato- 

 lampas, I have been unable to determine. 



Genus Abraliopsis Joubin. 1896. 



? Abraliopsis hoylei (PfefTer. 1884) Joubin. 1896. 



Enoploteuthis hoylei Pfeffer, 1884, p. 17, fig. 22. Abraliopsis hoylei 

 Joubin, 1896, p. 33, &c. Abraliopsis hoylei Hoyle. 1904. p. 36, 

 pi. 1, fig. 3 ; pi. 8 ; ph 10, figs. 1-10. 



The single specimen sent me (S.S.B. 400) is perhaps not quite adult, 

 so that I refer it to this species with considerable uncertainty, more especi- 

 ally since Pfeffer (1912, pp. 152, 160) has recently expressed the opinion 

 that the Panamic specimens described by Hoyle represent a previously 

 unnamed species which he designates as A. afjinis. 



The left tentacle-club of this specimen is missing, but the right club 

 has 5 suckers and 5 pads in the fixing-apparatus, and 2 rows of hooks suc- 

 ceeded distally by the usual 4 rows of small suckers. The ventral row of 

 hooks consists of 4 large hooks with a single very minute sucker proximal 

 to them in the same row. The dorsal row contains a similar small proximal 

 sucker, succeeded by 3 (+ one missing ?) small hooks. 



The specimen was collected on one of the beaches by R. S. Bell in 1910. 



Fam. OMMASTREPHIDAE Gill, 1871. 

 Genus Sthenoteuthis Verrill, 1880. 

 Sthenoteuthis bartramii (Lesueur, 1821) Verrill, 1880. 



Loligo bartramii Lesueur, 1821. p. 90, pi. 7. Sthenoteuthis bartramii 

 Verrill, 1880, p. 223. 



Three specimens in the present collection (S.S.B. 407) serve to extend 

 still further the wide area of ocean already known to be inhabited by this 

 species. They were cast up on Denham Bay beach, and collected at various 

 times during 1908 by Mr. T. Iredale. 



Genus Symplectoteuthis PfefTer, 1900. 



Symplectoteuthis oualaniensis (Lesson, 1830) Pfeffer, 1900. 



Loligo oualaniensis Lesson, 1830, p. 240, pi. 1, fig. 2. Symplecto- 

 teuthis oualaniensis Pfeffer, 1900, p. 180 ; 1912, p. 502, pi. 40, 

 41 ; pi. 42, figs. 1-4. 



The three specimens here referred to the present species are all imma- 

 ture, the largest having a medio-dorsal mantle-length of only 44 mm. ; but 

 all show the characteristic adhesion of the mantle to the locking cartilages 

 of the funnel on both sides (S.S.B. 402). 



Collected on the beaches in 1910 by R. S. Bell. 



Literature cited. 



Berry, S. S. 1913. " Nematolampas, a Remarkable New Cephalopod from 



the South Pacific." " Biological Bulletin," vol. 25. pp. 208-12, fig. 1 . 

 Chun, Carl. 1900. " Aus den Tiefen des Weltmeeres." Jena. 



1903. " Aus den Tiefen des Weltmeeres." Zweite Auflage, Jena. 



1903a. ' Uber Leuchtorgane und Augen von Tiefsee-Cephalopoden." 



Verhandl. Deutschen Zool. Gesellschaft, 1903, pp. 76-91 ; 14 text figures. 



