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DK WILLIAM EVANS HOYLE ON THE 



The radula is shown in fig. 7. 



According to coloured drawings made on the Expedition, the male of this species 

 is dull stone colour above, deepening to brown in the centre of the back ; the 



¥i(i. 7.— TimhiU of MoschitrsrJiarrnti, <5 [H 924]. x 60. 



female is much paler, with a piid<ish tinge above, almost white below. The 

 colours would, however, probably undergo change according to the varying state 

 of contraction of the chromatophores. 



SepioliD/E. 



Euprymna sp. 



Locality.— ^tdXiow 482, Saldanha Bay, Cape Colony. 19th May 1904. 8-10 

 fathoms. Trawled. One specimen, too young to determine [H 934]. 



Sepiolid gen. et sp. ? 

 Locality. — Entrance to Saldanha Bay, Cape of Good Hope. 21st May 1904. 

 25 fathoms. 



A head and arms, much macerated [H 1367]. 



LoiJGINID.'E. 

 Loligo reynaudi, d'Orbiguy, 1 845. 



Loccdity. — Station 480, eight miles north of Dassen Island, Cape Colony. 35 fathoms. 

 Between 2 and 2.30 p.m., 18th May 1904. One specimen, ? [H 927]. 



Twenty-six young specimens, thirteen $, twelve %, one damaged [H 930]. One 

 somewhat damaged specimen, ?, probably of this species [H 1372]. 



Previous Records. — Cape of Good Hope ; False Bay, Cape 'i'own. 



It is quite possible that some of the young specimens recorded as females 

 may be males in which the secondary sexual characters were as yet undeveloped. 



(ROY. fiOC. EDIN. TRANS., VOL. XLVIII., 280.) 



