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Chun (1910, p. 170) has united Meleagroteuthis to Calliteuthis 

 Verrill 1880, as a subgenus, a proceeding with which the writer is 

 in accord. 



Gonatus magister new species. 



Gonalus fabricii (?) Berry 1912a, p. 310, pi. 52, fig.s. 1-2; pi. 53; pi. 54, 

 figs. 1-4; pi. 55, figs, 1, 3-7 (not of Steenstrup et al.). 



In the work cited I referred a number of small decapods from the 

 California coast to the widespread Gonatus fabricii, and somewhat 

 doubtfully included with them two large squids from the Puget 

 Sound Region. Since that time, through the kindness of Miss A. L. 

 Massy, I have received a specimen of the true G. fabricii from the 

 Irish coast, and a comparison with this now leads me to consider 

 the Puget Sound specimens, at least, to represent a new species'. 



Owing to the detailed description of these specimens I have already 

 given, it is necessary here merely to give a brief resume of the feat- 

 ures which appear peculiar to them. As compared with the Irish 

 specimen, they are much larger, heavier, and more massive in every 

 way. The fins are over one-half the length of the body, are more 

 obtusely angled, and are scarcely at all produced at the extremity, 

 while at the same time they appear to be thicker, more firmly at- 

 tached to the body, more widely separated, and with less developed 

 anterior lobes. 



The most conspicuous and important difference, however, is to 

 be found in the structure of the tentacular arms, for the clubs are 

 not only differently shaped, but their inner faces are completely 

 clothed by a multitude of fine suckers quite unaccompanied by hooks 

 or even any traces of the same. I have carefully re-examined the 

 specimens on several different occasions and nowhere can find the 

 slightest scars to indicate that such structures might once have 

 been present. In the region -corresponding to their position in G. 

 fabricii, there is not even a bare space ("einer glatten langlichen 

 Central-Flache " of Middendorff) nor do the suckers extend so far 

 down the stalk as in that species. The fixing apparatus is very 

 simple and inconspicuous, comprising some 23-25 small marginal 

 pads alternating with a similar number of suckers on the club proper, 

 besides a number more extending down the stalk. These suckers 

 are all minute, none of them conspicuously larger or otherwise 

 differentiated from the others, and there are no accessory ridges 

 connected with- them as in G. fabricii. The contrast with either the 

 excellent figures of Steenstrup (1881, pi. 1), or the brief though clear 

 description given by Middendorff (1849, p. 515) for his Onychoteuthis 



