328 Bulletin Vanderbilt Marine Museum, Vol. VII 



Explor. Exped., Mollusca, 1852, vol. XII, p. 388, atlas XII, 

 pi. 33, figs. 502a-b. 



Cultellus scalprum, voN Martens, E., Suss. u. Brackwasser Mol- 

 lusken d. I Ind. Arch., 1897, p. 665, No. 2.— Lynge, H., D. 

 Kgl. Danske-Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter 7 Raekke, natur. og. 

 math. Afd. V, 3, 1909, pt. 4, p. 275 (with synonymy). 



Class: CEPHALOPODA 



Suborder: Decapoda 



Division: Myopsida 



Family: LOLIGINIDAE (d'Orbigny) emended 



LOLIGO Lamarck 



Loligo kobiensis Hoyle 



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Plate 141 



Type : This was secured by the "Challenger" at station 233, 

 Bay of Kobe, Japan, 8 fathoms, mud bottom. May 17, 1875, and is 

 deposited in the British Museum of Natural History. Four imma- 

 ture specimens were also taken by the "Challenger" expedition 

 from the Inland Sea, Japan. 



Distribution: This species is known on the Asiatic coast 

 from Japanese waters southward to the Malay Straits. It was 

 not taken by the Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of 

 Manaar and does not appear in Mr. Goodrich's report on the Cal- 

 cutta Museum collections of Cephalopoda nor Mr. Berry's report 

 on the Hawaiian Cephalopoda. While the "Siboga" report may 

 give much additional concerning this species, M. Joubin's report 

 is not yet issued, so the "Alva" material appears to be the first 

 record of this species from the Malay Straits. 



Material examined : Three specimens, taken by the "Alva" 

 at Georgetown, Penang, Malay Straits, November 13, 1931. 



Technical description : This specimen is small, mature, with 

 a body length of 60 to 70 millimeters. The body is obconical, about 

 one-third as wide anteriorly as long, much tapered posteriorly to 

 a blunt apex. The free mantle margin is produced to a wide tri- 

 angle in the median dorsal line, from which it slopes to the lateral 

 margin ; it is produced to a small triangular point, on either side 



