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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 O. tuderculatus 
Blainville, from Masatierra. They are evidently young ones of the present 
species, and have more distinct cirri than the larger specimens. O. ‘ubercula- 
tus is, in any case, very closely related to, or even a mere variety of, O. 
vulgaris. 
Dosidicus gigas dOrbigny. 
One specimen was captured at Masatierra the 1/12 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—0,7 m. 
STILLMAN BERRY’ (1912) 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 (Meartialia Hyadest Rochebrune & Ma- 
bille, fide PFEFFER). 

1 STILLMAN Berry, A Review of the Cephalopods of Western North America. Bull. Bu- 
reau of Fisheries, Vol. xxx, July 1912. 
Printed \"|2 1920. 

