BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF 
COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
Right. Left, 
POMEL ORNs an no. s o. E. E A. rA 
Teog Or Seconda AMD S. v v (or 4 V V V Via aD Qi 
ene or tira RE S V 1 7 Ww 1-78 8.7. v Y COD TT "1S 
Length of fourth arat. s v s sium n v v vicc dues d 
Lengpwortentade o v IE 
The following discrepancies between the above account and that given by 
Grant seem worth mentioning. The arms are a little larger than would corre- 
spond with the measurements given in Grant's text, but in the figure the arms 
are shown as larger than stated in the text. The tentacle is much longer in 
Grant's figure and description than in the “ Albatross ” specimens, but this 
organ varies so much in this respect both during life and after death according 
to preservation that a difference in this respect can hardly invalidate an identi- 
fication based on so many resemblances. The head is sunk back into the 
mantle-cavity and hence the waist-like constriction behind the eyes, shown in 
Grant/s figure, does not appear; this again is merely a matter of contraction 
of the tissues. 
The nomenelature of this interesting form demands, perhaps, a few words of 
explanation. The generic name Huprymna was first proposed by Steenstrup 
in the Latin summary appended to his paper on the “Mediterranean Species 
of Sepiola” ('87). Speaking of the short-finned forms (“species brevipinnes ”) 
he says that they approach the typical species of the genus Imvoteuthis Verrill, 
“dum ab atypicis speciebus ejusdem generis (In. Morsei, sthenodactyla, bursa, 
cet. propter connexionem latam capitis eum pallio et tentaculorum miram 
formationem ad genus novum, Luprymnam mihi dictum, referendis) valde 
recedunt." 
In a subsequent paper (787 4, p. 88 [42]) he recurs to the same subject as fol- 
lows: * The other Japanese Sepiolid, In. Morsei Verr., only provisionally referred 
by Professor Verrill to the genus Inioteuthis, only known to him in the shape 
of a single female example, is the most northeasterly form yet discovered of a 
series of very plump, thick-set Sepiolas, which seem to oceur in all zones of the 
Indian Ocean and South Sea, and of which the most southwesterly representa- 
tive yet known to me is the Sepiola sthenodactyla from Mauritius, described and 
depicted more than fifty years ago (1833) by Prof. Robert Grant in the Trans. 
Zoöl. Society, Vol. 1. All the individuals of this thick-set group of Sepiolas 
are characterized by a very broad ligament between the mantle and head, as 
has been mentioned by Verrill in the case of In. Morsei, Verr., and as is 
recorded for this species or one closely allied to it by W. Hoyle (Challenger 
Expd. Cephalop., Plate XLV., Fig. 1) and by Appellöf (Op. cit., ['86] 
Plate II), and as is equally strongly emphasized both in text and figure by 
Robert Grant in the case of Sepiola sthenodactyla (Plate 11, Fig. 1), they are 
especially remarkable for the stout, swollen tentacular clubs, which have a 
velvety appearance on account of the hair-like thinness of the stalks of the 
suckers, and the (almost or quite) rudimentary condition of the suckers them- 
selves as figured by Hoyle in the case of In. bursa, Pfeff., Plate XIV., Figs. 4-8. 
