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Text figure 19. — Loligo hidica PfefFer : a, pen, X 1 ; b, a large sucker from the 

 tentacular arm, x 20 ; c, a large sucker from the sessile arm, X 20. 



Distribution: In addition to the type from Java (Pfeffer), 

 thirteen specimens of this species were taken by the "Challenger" 

 in the Arafura Sea, south of Papua, at station 188, in 28 fathoms, 

 and at station 190, in 49 fathoms. Subsequently Mr. Goodrich 

 reported eight specimens in the Calcutta Museum collections, from 

 Mergui, one from Camorta Harbor, one from Daley Sandheads, 

 two from the mouth of the Mutlah River and one from the Chilka 

 Bight. This species was not taken by the Ceylon Pearl Oyster 

 Fisheries Investigation in the Gulf of Manaar, nor by the J. Stan- 

 ley Gardiner expedition of 1899-1900, in the Maldive and Lacca- 

 dive Archipelagoes. Neither the reports of the United States 

 Bureau of Fisheries Steamer "Albatross" biological investiga- 

 tions in the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions, 1907-10, 

 Cephalopoda, nor those of the "Siboga"-Expeditie in Nederlandsch 

 Oost-Indie, 1899-1900, have been published, hence the "Ara" record 

 becomes the first Philippine record for this species, as well as the 

 most northern station for it. Loligo indica Pfeffer apparently 

 has its center of distribution in the Sunda Isles, extending west- 

 ward to Mergui Archipelago, northeastward to Cebu, Philippine 

 Islands, eastward to the Arafura Sea, south of Papua. The col- 

 lected specimens are deposited in the natural history museum in 

 Hamburg (type), London ("Challenger") and Calcutta ("Inves- 

 tigator"), so the "Ara" catch of nine specimens, deposited in the 



