36 OMMATOSTREPHIDA. 
Frequently two jigs are managed, one in each hand. The squid 
merely clasps his tentacles around the jig, and doubtless the pain 
from the sharp pins induces him to escape instantly, but the 
fisherman, who is constantly jerking the jig up and down, pulls 
in as rapidly as possible, entangling the animal’s arms among the 
pins and drawing him through the water so fast that escape is 
impossible. The instant he emerges from the water he contracts 
his body, discharging through his siphon a jet of salt water. 
This is followed by a sucking in of the air by successive respi- 
ratory acts, till in its middle portion his cylindrical body has 
become almost spherical. By a second contraction the squid 
now ejects from his siphon a stream of his black inky secretion. 
Not unfrequently the luckless fisherman has not the squid 
unhooked before this discharge takes place and may receive the 
inky stream full in the face. The scene when the squid are thick 
is really exciting; the streams rising here and there, in twenty 
directions at once, point out the rapidity of the catch, and the 
monotonous noise of the squirt is only varied by an occasional 
murmur of discontent from this or that unfortunate as he lifts 
his querulous voice. The squid usually sell at from twenty-five 
to forty cents per hundred. The number used by a single vessel 
in only two months is astonishing. Our vessel, a small one, 
made three ‘“ baitings,” fishing each time about two weeks and 
used in that time 80,000 of the squid. 
A species of Ommatostrephes is extensively fished in Japan. 
Mr. Arthur Adams relates that off Nisi-Bama in the Oki Islands, 
he saw a number of lights moving upon the surface of the water, 
in all directions, which he found were used to attract the cephalo- 
pods to the surface ; where they were secured by a jig, an iron 
shank terminated by a circle of recurved hooks. Mr. Adams 
visited a small fishing village near Hakodadi, where he saw hun- 
dreds of thousands of squids, cleaned and stretched on bamboo- 
sticks, suspended on lines to dry in the sun and air. 
HYALOTEUTHIS, Gray, 1849. Body transparent, tubercular be- 
neath ; one or two cups on the second pair of sessile arms larger. 
Distr.—The only species is from the West Indies. 
MOROTEUTHIS, Verrill, 1882. Pen long, narrow, thin, terminating 
posteriorly in a conical, hollow, many-ribbed, oblique cone, which 
is inserted into the oblique anterior end of a long, round, tapering, 
acute, solid cartilaginous terminal cone composed of concentric 
layers, and corresponding to the solid cone of Belemnites in 
position and relation to the true pen; elliptical connective carti- 
lages on the base of the siphon; nuchal, longitudinal crests three, 
much as in Ommatostrephes; eyelids with a distinct sinus; 
caudal fin large, broad, spear-shaped; ventral arms with smooth- 
rimmed suckers at the base. Rest of armature unknown. JZ. 
robusta, Verrill. 
