ON THE CEPHALOPODS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH 

 EXPEDITION TO TIERRA DEL ETJEGO 1895—96. 



BY 



Dr. EINAR LÖNNBERG. 



(Plates IV and V 



The following Cephalopods were collected by I>r. A 

 Ohlix and dr. 0. Nobjdenskjöld during the Swedish expedition 

 to Tierra del Fuego 1895—96 under the direction of the 

 Latter. The specimens mentioned below are kepl in t Im- 

 Zoological State-Museum in Stockholm, Departement for lower 

 evertebrates. 



The number of specimens is aoi very large, ii includes 

 however two new species, and complete specimens of a türm 

 which hitherto was known only trom fragments, and in 

 addition to tliis helps to throw urw lighl on some unsolved 

 teuthological questions. The collection can therefore be 

 regarded as quite valuable not only frorn ;i zoogeographical 

 point of view. 



Oetopus fontanianos d'ORB. 



1 specimen, Puerto Madryn, s n 1895. 

 On the ebbstrand where it had taken possession of an 

 empty Vohita-shell, bluish violet, inside of arms with the 

 suckers whitish. 



To the same species 1 refer although with doubt: 

 1 specimen, Ushuaia. "' .. 1896. 



>Bluisli violet». 

 This specimen had probably become shapeless by violenl 

 contractions. The body therefore seemed narrower than it 

 ought to be and the skin was strongly wrinkled and corru- 

 gated. This animal was a male with heetocotylised arm. 



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