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(p. 265) the date "1884." I was fully aware of both these dates when 1 prepared 



the JReport on the " Challenger" Cephalopoda, but as a matter of fact neither of 



them is a date of publication. Sheet 50 of Verrill's Third Catalogue of Mollusca 



. . . of the Neiv England Coast was not published by itself, but along with sheets 



51-56, in a wrapper which bears the words, " Newhaven, April to June 1885." 



Therefore, under the most favourable construction, it cannot possibly have appeared 



before June, and careful inquiries which I made at the time led me to the conclusion 



that it did not make its appearance till July. I may further add that in the 



twenty-five years which have elapsed since the statement was published its accuracy 



has never been impugned. 



Cranchiid^. 



Galiteuthis suhmi, Hoyle, 1886. 

 ? Procalisies suhmii, Lankester, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. xxiv. p. 311, 1884. 

 Taonius suhmi, Hoyle, Ceph. Challenger Kxped., p. 192, pi. xxxii. figs. 5-11, 1886. 

 Taonidium suhini, Pfeffer, Synopsis Oegopsid. Ceph., p. 192, 1900. 

 Galiteuthis armata, .loubin, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool), ser. 8, vol. vi. p. 279, 1898. 

 Galiteuthis (Taonidium) suhmii, Chun, " Cephalopoden," Wiss. Ergebn. deutsch. Tiefsee Exped., 

 p. 382, pi. lix., 1910. 

 Zoca%.— Station 422, Weddell Sea. Lat. 68' 32' S., long. 12° 49' W. 23rd 

 March 1904. Vertical net; surface to 600 fathoms. One specimen [H935]. 



Previous Records.— ^o\\t\\ of Australia, lat. 47° 25' S., long. 130° 22' E. ; 

 Mediterranean ; Equatorial Atlantic in the Guinea Current. 



This specimen has a mantle length of 45 mm., and is, therefore, considerably 

 larger than that described by Chun (34 mm.) ; but nevertheless I could find no 

 trace of the modification of the tentacular suckers into hooks as depicted by him 

 (pi. lix. figs. 6, 7) ; still, the other characters agree so well that I have no doubt 

 that it belongs to the same species as his. 



If it could be proved satisfactorily that the embryo described by Lankester 

 really belonged to this species, his name would take precedence ; but at present 

 it seems advisable to keep the name Proadistes suhmii for it, and to call 'the 

 more mature specimens by the name ado^tted by Chun. 



Desmoteuthis sp. 

 Locality. — Station 98, off Rio Grande, South America. Lat. 34° 2' S., long. 

 49° 7' W. 28th December 1902. Mantle and fin, cast up by a petrel. Too 

 fragmentary to determine. [H 1368.] 



I have not thought it necessary to encumber this Report with full bibliographical 

 references ; these will be found in my Catalogue of Recent Cephalopoda and its two 

 Supplements.* The drawings have been made by Miss L M. Davenport, B.Sc, under my 

 supervision. 



* Proc. Ray. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. ix., 1886 ; vol. xiii., IS97 ; vol. xvii., 1909. 



National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 

 6<A January 1912. 



(rot. soc. edin. trans., vol. slviil, 283.) 



