1916.] A. L. Massy : Cephalopoda of the Indian Museum. 219 
s174:91 Puri Beach (?)—Fighteen young Mantle-length 12-26 
M £192:8200 Puri, Orissa Coast (NV. 4. and 
Ry Bs Ls) —Five ¢ * 32-49 
Four 9° «i 47-08 
M #298:10 Pyri Beach (F. A. Gravely)— 
Three ¢ . 30-77 
Two 9? 5 04-75 
M £218:14 Puri Beach (C. Paiva), 23-i11-1908 
—One ¢ . g2 
One © . 110 
M 82215 Puri Beach, Orissa Coast (7. Caunter ) 
31- oe 1909 —One 6 ¢ AR 
M 8216-18 Varkulay, Travancore (N. Annan- 
dale): LO-Xi-1900 —One ¢ 4 220 
Two 9 *s 93-114 
M £222 Karachi (W. D. Cumming)—One rah ¥ 75 
M 8226 Gangaram, Vizagapatam District, 
Madras Coast (Moti Ram) —One ¢ # Ql 
2 Small specimen in bad condition. 
M 8252 Akyab, Burma (/. H. Burkill)—-One @ if 72 
M 82746 Off Gopalpore, trawler ‘ Golden 
Crown’, Bengal Fish. Dept., 23-27- “1X- 19090— 
“hree 9 ti = EF 78 
M 8289-1 Off Eastern Channel, m. of R. Hughli, 
trawler ‘Golden Crown’, xi-1909, Bengal 
Fish. Dept. —Two ¢g “ 97-148 
M 8225-9008 ' Pavestierios station 505 and 507 : 
13- 21- -xi-1913, OraoolN., 98 1900 7E., 
6-7 fathoms —Five ¢ f 25-85 
Two 9 ia 33-42 
(2?) Three young 10-12 
M 2007-12 ‘ Investigator’ station 575: 20- Xii- 
1912, Off entrance to Mergui Harbour, S. 
Bircunee 7-fathoms (?) Six young ra S-o 
M 9817:19 ‘Investigator’ station 590 : 8-9-1- 
1913, Mergui Archipelago, 13° 5’ 15” N., 97° 
53’ E., about 30 fathoms —One ¢ if 17 
Two © NER fehl 
M 29890:9097 ' Investigator ’ station 569g : 29-30- 
xi-1913, 11° 52’ 10” N., 98° 18’ 40” E., 5 fathoms 
—Thirty- -six 6 if 16-81 
Thirty-two 9 i [0-102 
M 2324 Off Gopalpore, 30-38 fathoms, Bay of 
Bengal, trawler ‘Golden Crown’ , Bengal Fish. 
Dept., Dec., 1909 —One 9 ie 110 
These twenty-five records of seventy males and sixty-two 
females show that the present species occurs all round the coast 
of India from Karachi to the mouth of the River Hughli, and also 
off the Burmese coast and Andaman Islands. The length and 
breadth of the fins with regard to the length of the mantle exhibits 
a certain amount of individual variation, but, except in the case 
of several small females in the haul M 2080-2097 which showed much 
wider fins than males of the same size, there seems to be no 
