TRANSACTIONS 



OF 



THE L I N N E A N SOCIETY. 



I. Report on a Collection of Cephalopoda from the Calcutta Iluseum. By Edwin 

 S. Goodrich, B.A., F.L.S., Assistant to the Linacre Professor of Comp. Anatomy, 

 Oxford. 



(Plates 1-5.) 



Eead 19th December, 1895. 



TiAST year Professor E. Ray Lankester received for examination from the Calcutta 

 Museum a large collection of Cephalopods, which he kindly handed over to me to be 

 identified. The work was carried on at the Oxford Museum and at the British Museum, 

 Cromwell E-oad, and I must express my thanks to Dr. A. Glinther and Mr. E. A. Smith 

 for placing the collections in the latter Institution at my disposal. 



The present collection is composed almost entirely of specimens captured during 

 the voyages of H.M.S. 'Investigator.' It contains 162 specimens, belonging to 28 

 genera. 



Eleven new species are described, belonging to the genera Inioteuthis, Sepia, Loliolus, 

 Sepioteuthis, Abralia, Cheiroteuthis, Histiopsis, Taonius, and Octopus. No new genus 

 has been foimded ; but four genera included are new to the Indian region. Of these the 

 genus Calliteuthis has been recorded from the Atlantic and Pacific regions ; the ^genus 

 Histiopsis from the Atlantic ; and the genera Loliolus and Inioteuthis from the Pacific 

 and Japanese regions. 



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