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not the young either of that species or of P. californicus. Despite 

 their smallness, the four specimens are very nearly of a size, and 

 it may be that they are approximately mature. 



The species is named for Dr. George Clinton Price, of Stanford 

 University. 

 Calliteuthis (Meleagroteuthis) heteropsis new species. 



Meleagroteuthis hoylei Berry 1912a, p. 305, text figs. 13-16, pi. 50, figs. 1-3; 



pi. 51; pi. 52, figs. 5-7 (not of Pfeffer 1900, p. 170; 1912, p. 291, pi. 22, 



figs. 1-8). 

 Having recently been able to consult a copy of Pfeffer's great mono- 

 graph of the (Egopsida containing a much more detailed description 

 of his Meleagroteuthis hoylei than had previously been given, together 

 with an excellent series of figures of the same, I am forced to the 

 opinion that my reference of the Albatross Calif ornian specimens 

 to this species was an error and that they represent a nearly allied 

 but unnamed form. As I have already given a careful and full 

 description of these specimens, its repetition is unnecessary here, 

 but it should be added that, as compared with M. hoylei, C. heteropsis 

 differs especially in the following characteristics: 



(1) There is a somewhat greater number of suckers and pads 

 in the fixing apparatus of the tentacles, and these exhibit the fol- 

 lowing differences in arrangement : in hoylei the dorsal series comprises 

 five pads and the same number of suckers in regular alternation, 

 while the ventral and more proximal row beginning at the carpus 

 comprises (according to Pfeffer's figure) 1 sucker, 2 pads, 2 suckers, 

 1 pad, 2 suckers, 1 pad — a very peculiar order indeed; in heteropsis 

 the dorsal series contains 7 pads alternating with an equal number 

 of suckers, while the ventral row commencing at its distal end con- 

 tains a small sucker, then a larger one, then two smaller pads, then 

 two larger suckers, two pads, two suckers, two pads, and two suckers 

 — all nearly in the same line, but occurring in pairs in regular alter- 

 nation. 



' (2) There is no evidence whatever of the presence of cartilaginous 

 tubercles, either along the medio-dorsal line, along the arms, or any- 

 where else. 



(3) The arms are relatively stouter. 



(4) The number of teeth on the horny rings of the sessile arm 

 suckers is much smaller (7-8 instead of 20), and these are apparent 

 only upon the upper half of the ring. 



In some respects the present species approaches the recently 

 described C. asteroessa Chun, but is probably sufficiently distinct. 



