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the 5 extreme suckers. The colour (in alcohol) was a chocolate brown with 

 purplish clouds on the dorsal side, light-brown below. 



In my first report I recorded some small specimens of 0. tuberculatus 

 Blainville, from Masatierra. They are evidently young ones of the present 

 species, and have more distinct cirri than the larger specimens. O. tubercula- 

 tus is, in any case, very closely related to, or even a mere variety of, 0. 

 vulgaris. 



Dosidicus gigas d'Orbigny. 



One specimen was captured at Masatierra the ^*/i2 1916. The head 

 with arms and tentacles was preserved; it measures a total length of 64 cm 

 (head + tentacles) or 50 cm (head + arms). The specimen thus had a mantle 

 length of about 0,6 — o,7 m. 



Stillman Berry^ (191 2) states the area of distribution of this species as 

 follows: »North Queensland, New South Wales, and Lord Howe Island, 

 Australasia (Brazier); Chile (d'Orbigny, Gray, Martens, Steinhaus, 

 Pfeffer); Peru (d'Orbigny). California, Monterey Bay, Santa Rosa Island 

 (Yates), San Clemente Island (Carpenter), San Diego (Kelsey).» To these 

 localities is to be added Orange Bay [Martialia Hyadesi Rochebrune & Ma- 

 bille, fide Pfeffer). 



• Stillmak Berry, A Review of the Cephalopods of Western North America. Bull. Bu- 

 reau of Fisheries, Vol. xxx, July 1912. 



Printed ^7« 1926. 



