APPENDIX. 



SiiKre the earlier parts of this article were printed, a number of 

 additional specimens of some of the species have been received. 

 Some of these are of importance, as affording additional information 

 in regard to the genera and species, and will, therefore, be mentioned 

 here. 



I have also received from Professor J. Steenstrup two recent 

 pamphlets,* relating to the Ommastrephidm and TeuthidcB^ printed 

 subsequently to the publication of the pages relating to those families 

 in this article. As these refer directly to the genera and species 

 herein described, they may well be briefly noticed here. 



Ommastrephes, Sthenoteuthis, lUex, etc. 



Professor Steenstrup, in the first paper referred to, has given a 

 revision of the Omniastrephes-group. He divides the old genus 

 Ommastrephes into three genera, viz : I. Illex, which includes O. 

 illecebrosus^ with Coindetii^ the closely allied Mediterranean form ; 

 TI. ToDAuoDES, which includes only the well-known Oramastrephes 

 toddrus of the Mediterranean, to which he restores the name sagitta- 

 tus Lamarck, which has been otherwise employed by other authoi's 

 during half a century past ; III. OMMATOSTREPHEsf (restricted), 

 which corresponds exactly with Sthenoteut/iis\ previously established 

 by me. (These Trans., p 222, February, 1880). 



* De Ommatostrephagtige Blaeksprutter indbyrdes Forhold <;Oversight over d. k. D. 

 Vidensk. Selsk. Forhandl., 1880. Presented, April, 1880. [Author's edition received 

 Aug., 1880]. 



Professor .\. E. Yerrils [sic] to nye Cephalopodslfegter, Sthenoteuthis og Lestoteu- 

 this. P.ema3rkninger og Berigtigelser, 1 pi. ["avec un resume en Francais," not 

 received]. From the same, 1881. Advance copy received by me, through the 

 kindness of the author, is dated, in MSS., March 3, 1881. 



f I can see no necessity for the proposed reformation of the original spelling of this 

 word by clianging it to ■' Ommatostrephes,^' for usage justifies the elision of a syllable 

 in so long a name. The original spelling has been in good use for over forty years. 



X Professor Steenstrup also quotes Cycria Gray, 1849 (ex Leach MSS.), as a syn- 

 onym of Omnfmstrephes as restricted, = Sthenoteuthis. But in reality it was evidently 

 intended for a group equivalent to Ommastrephes, in the extended sense, and as a 

 complete synonym, never in use, it siiould be dropped. Hyaloteuthis Gray, if 

 used at all, should bo used in the limited sense, for a minor group, as originally 

 intended. 



