16 ME. E. S. GOODEICH ON A COLLECTION OF 



resembles that described and figvired below in Taonius abysslcola. Mr. Hoyle makes no 

 mention of the ' funnel-organ' in liis species (i). 



The head is wide and sharply marked off from the narrow neck. Below each eye is 

 an olfactory papilla {plf.j}., fig. 64). 



The eyes are large, with widely open eyelids (figs. 62 & 64) ; the left eye is injured 

 and protrudes from the eyelid, it has been restored in the figure. 



The arms, which differ somewhat in length on the right and left sides, appear to be 

 in the following order of length : 2, 1, 3, 4. Unlike H. atlantlca of Hoyle, the web at 

 the base of the arm is quite rudimentary (fig. 63). The small suckers, placed in two 

 rows on all the arms, are of a peculiar conical shape (figs. 69 & 70), with a wide opening 

 furnished with a narrow horny ring armed round its margin with small sharp teeth. 



The left and only complete tentacle enlarges at its extremity into a small club 

 (figs. 62 & 65), bearing four regular rows of small suckers on its distal half, and as many 

 as six irregular rows on its proximal half. At the widest region of the club the central 

 suckers attain a large size (fig. 65). They have round shallow cups, set almost straight 

 on short thick stalks (fig. 67) ; the margin of the horny ring is armed with numerous 

 long straight pointed teeth. Near the base there is a connective apparatus consisting of 

 a row of three alternating suckers and tubercles {c.app., fig. 65) ; two or three small 

 suckers arc scattered down the stem. 



The buccal membrane has seven lobes, with corresponding ridges extending on to the 

 arms, as shown in figure 63. 



The delicate little pen is lanceolate (fig. 71). 



The colour of this specimen in spirit is pale yellowish-brown, covered with dark 

 purplish-brown chromatophores, on the mantle, iipper surface of the fins, head, buccal 

 membrane, and arms (especially on their iianer surface). 



As seen in the figiu'e, a large niimber of U-shaped pigmented organs, most probably 

 phosphorescent (see Joubin, 3 & 4 a), are scattered in irregular transverse rows on the 

 lower sm-face of the mantle, head, and arms ; a few extend over to the upper surface, 

 and one row surrounds each eye (fig. 64). The first three pairs of arms have one row 

 each extending to their tips, whilst the larger ventral arms have three rows proximally, 

 reduced to two distally. 



The exact systematic position of this little Cephalopod is not very easy to determine. 

 I have placed it provisionally in the genus Histiopsis of Hoyle, from whose specimen it 

 differs in the absence of a distinct web at the base of the arms, in the horny rings of the 

 suckers, in the buccal membrane, in the contimiation of the fins beyond the mantle- 

 apex, in the possession of one row only of pigmented organs on the first three pairs 

 arms, and perhaps in the presence of the ' funnel-organ ' (Verrill's organ). 



The horny rings of the tentaciilar suckers arc very like those oillistioteuthis, to which 

 genus it is no doubt closely related. 



Calliteuthis eeveesa, Verrill. 



One specimen of this widely distribvited species was caught in the Andaman Sea at a 

 depth of 265 fathoms. 



