92 DR WILLIAM EVANS HOYLE ON THE 



named material available does not justify an attempt to identify them. The animals 

 referred to and the localities were : — 



Eoss' Seal.— Station 165, 6th February 1903. 



Weddell's Seal— Station 326, Jessie Bay, South Orkneys, May 1903; Station 325, 

 South Orkneys, 21st September 1903. 



Albatross. — Station 437, 3rd April 1904. 



Sooty Albatross.— Station 376, lat. 64° 38' S., long. 35° 13' W. 23rd February 

 1904. 



Emperor Penguin.— Station 248, lat. 69° 46' S., long. 20° 58' W. 21st February 

 1903. 



SYSTEMATIC LIST. 



ClRROTEUTHID^. 



Stauroteutlda sp. 



Locality.— ^{&\A0\\ 295, AVeddell Sea. Lat. 66° 40' S., long. 40° 35' W. 10th March 

 1903. 2425 fathoms. One specimen [H 956].* 



This is probably either S. meangensis or »S. hippocrcpium, but in the mutilated 

 condition of the body and the absence of the internal cartilage it is impossible to 

 speak with certainty. It is just possible that it might be one of the species of 

 Cirroteuthis, but this is less likely. 



A number of fragments and a few fairly complete examples of Crustacea were 

 found in the gizzard of this specimen, and an account of them has been published by 

 Dr Thomas Scott.+ The most remarkable appears to be Ponfostratiotes ahyssicola, 

 G. S. Brady, which seems never to have been met with since the unique type was 

 obtained by the Challenger in mud from 2200 fathoms in lat. 37° 29' 8., long. 

 27° 31' W. This is of interest as furnishing corroborative evidence of the deep-sea 

 habits of the Cirroteuthidse. By a clerical error Dr Scott gives the date of capture 

 as 1908 instead of 1903. 



A water-colour drawing of this specimen, made on the Expedition, shows that the 

 coloration very closely resembles that of Stavroteuthis hi2ypocrepium, as depicted 

 in the Albatross Report ; J the colour of the body is, however, more deeply purple. 

 As compared with Cirroteuthis umhellata, Fischer, § the arms are dull red instead 

 of deep purple (though this may be owing to the oral aspect of the arms being 

 depicted in one case and the aboral in the other), and the body is purple instead 

 of pale reddish. 



* Tlie mimbers in square brackets refer to my own register ol' specimens examined, 

 t Ann. and Mag. Nal. Hist. (8), vol. v. jip. f<\-H, pis. ii,, iii., Jan. 1910. 

 X HoYLE, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. xliii., No. 1, \<\. i. fig. 1, pi. ii. fig. 1, 1904. 

 § JOUBIN, " C(i|ihalopode3 de la ' Prinoesse Alice,'" pi. i., 1900 [1901]. 



(ROY. .SOC. EDIN. TRANS., VOL. XLVIII., 274.) 



