APPENDIX 



Since the earlier parts of tliis article were printed, a number of 

 additional specimens of some of tlie species have been received. 

 Some of these are of importance, as affording additional information 

 in regard to the genera and species, and will, therefore, be mentioned 

 here. 



I have also received from Prol'essor J, Steenstiup two recent 

 pamphlets,* relating to the Onmiastrephidm and Teuthidce., printed 

 subsequently to the publication of the pages rehiting to those families 

 in this article. As these refer directly to the genera and species 

 herein described, they may well be briefly noticed here. 



Ommastrephes, Sthenoteuthis, Illex, etc. 



Professor Steenstrup, in the first paper referred to, has given a 

 revision of the Ommastrephes-group. He divides the old genus 

 Ommastrephes into three genera, viz : I. Illex, which includes O. 

 illecehrosiis, with Coindetii, the closely allied Mediterranean form ; 

 II. ToDARODES, which includes only the well-known Om>mastrep}ies 

 todarus of the Mediterranean, to which he restores the name sagitta- 

 tus Lamarck, which has been otherwise employed by other authors 

 during half a century past ; III. OMMATOsxREPHEsf (restricted), 

 which corresponds exactly with 8the7ioteiithis\ previously established 

 by me. (These Trans,, p 222, February, 1880). 



* De Omraatostrephagtige Blsekspnitter indbyrdes Forliold <;Oversight over d. k. D. 

 Vidensk. 8elsk. Forhandl., 1880. Presented, April, 1880. [Author's edition received 

 Aug., 1880]. 



Professor A.. E. Verrils [sicj to nye Cephalopodsli«gter, Sthenoteuthis og Lestoteu- 

 this. Bemasrkninger og Berigtigelser, 1 pi. ["avec uu resume en Franeais," not 

 received]. From the same, 1881. Advance copy received by me, through the 

 kindness of the author, is dated, in MSS., March 3, 1881. 



f I can see no necessity for the proposed reformation of the original spelling of this 

 word by changing it to •' Ommatostrephes,^' for usage justifies the elision of a syllable 

 in so long a name. The original spelling has been in good use for over forty years. 



:j: Professor Steenstrup also quotes Cycria Gray, 1849 (ex Leach MSS.), as a syn- 

 onym of Ommastrephes as restricted, = Sthenoteuthis. But in reality it was evidently 

 intended for a group equivalent to Ommastrephes, in the extended sense, and as a 

 complete synonym, never in use, it should be dropped. Hyaloteuthis Gray, if 

 used at all, should be used in the limited sense, for a minor group, as originally 

 intended. 



