352 Records of the S.A. Museum 



iS<)d. Sfpiailtniiiiii korliii (loiulricli. Trans. Linn. Soc, (2), Zool., \ii, \). .3 

 ( recurded from off Ceylon and .\ntlaman Islands). 



Iswy. „ kochil Appellof, Ceph. Ternate, p. 593, pi. .\\\n, iij;. 9-10; 



])1. xxxiii. fig. ly, Ji : pi. xx.\i\'. fig. 2^. J^, 2J. 



HJ04. ,, kuclii Hoyle, Ceph. Ceylon, p. 1S7. i(j8 (recorded from oil 



I'l. de Galle, Ceylon). 



1913. .. kocliii Sa.saki, Zool. Mag. Tokyo, p. 24J. 398, fig. 2 (in 



Japanese ) . 



i(H4. ., Iciicliii Sasaki. Annot. Zool. Japon.. \iii. p. 597. 



Chart No. 10. 



'lypi- l.iirafil\. Deep Water Bay. llong Kong ( Steeiistrup). 



J\'ci()nh'd Distrihutinn. Japan: luioura. Suruga (Sasaki); ott Xukumi, 

 Satsnma (.Sasaki); llepjiu. lUmgo (Sasaki): Kuriliama, Musashi (.Sasaki); 

 Nagasaki, Hizen (Sasaki). China: Hong Kong ( Steenstrup ) . India: ^2 

 tathoms. (^' (> 3C)" Lat. N.. 81' 23' Long. E., oft' south coast of Ceylon (Cootl- 

 rich); 16-30 fathoms, south of Point de ( lallc. Ceylon (Hoyle): .\ndaman 

 Islands ((joodrich). Last Indies: Xear llanda Islands ( SteenstrupJ ; Ternate 

 (.\ppellof); Anihoina (Brock). 



Remarks. The special features of .S". kocliii, as figured by Steenstrup, are 

 the \er\- minierons and minute suckers of the narrowly keeled tentacle cluli, Ihe 

 .irrn fornuda 1, 3. 4, J (possibly somewhat variable), the small fins, and the 

 (let;iils of the hectocotylized ai-m. In the type (a male) the latter apparently 

 had t; pairs of suckers, succeeded Ijy a series of about 26 thick, longitudinally 

 grooxed, trans\erse i)ads, l)ordercd b_\- a marginal fold or membrane best devel- 

 oped ventrally. 



.Sasaki (1914, p. 5<>S ) notes a number of discrepancies from Steenstrup's 

 original description in the Japanese specimens examined by him. Some of them 

 are not of great consequence, but others are of such a nature as to suggest the 

 possibility that more than one recognizalily distinct form has been included under 

 kocliii in the literature. 



From Steenstrup's description 1 cannot make out just which of his specimens 

 he regarded as the type, but since most of his figures are of a male from Dee)j 

 Water Bay, Hong Kong, the presumption i-- strong if not conclusive that this is 

 properlv regarded as the type locality. 1 f this be granted, the following specimen^ 

 in the ct)llection of the Museum of Compar.ative Zoology are clearly referable to 

 the true kocliii. 



