36 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



36. Onychoteuthid, gen. et sp. ? 



Habitat. — Station 18, about 75 miles north of the Marquesas Islands; 

 September 13, 1899; lat. 6° 25' S.,loug. 138° 59' W.; 400 fathoms to surface; 

 temperature, surface, 80° ; one specimen. [H. 136 ] 



Station 27, off Anna ^laria Bay, Marquesas Islands ; September 15, 1899 ; 

 lat. 9° or S., 140° 04' W. ; 320 fathoms to surface ; temperature, surface, 79° ; 

 one specimen. [H. 138.] 



These two small specimens are probably both to be referred to the same 

 species, though the one first mentioned is much shrivelled. They are almost 

 certainly the young of one or other of the numerous hook-squids. 



Family EXOPLOTEUTHIDAE. 



Enoploteuthidae PfefEer, :00, pp. 153, 163. 



ABRALIOPSIS. 



Abrallopsis Joubin, '96, pp. 32. 



37- Abrallopsis hoylei. 



(Plate 1, Fig. 3; Plate 8.) 



Enojiloteuthis hoijlei I'feffer, 'S"!, p. 17. 

 Abniliojisis hoylei Joubiii, '96, p. 33. 



Habitat. — Station 3375, off Cape San Francisco, March 4, 1891 ; lat. 2° 34' N., 

 long. 82° 29' W., 1201 fathoms ; gray globigeriua ooze ; temperature, surface 

 77°, bottom 3G.°6, one specimen ^, No. 7959 A. [H. 65.] 



Station 3382, of!" Mariato Point, March 7, 1891 ; lat. 6° 21' N., long. 80<» 

 41' W., 1793 fathoms; green mud ; temperature, surface 75°, bottom 35. °8; 

 one specimen 9 > ^^- 7964. [H. 66.] 



Station 3414, off Tehuantepec ("surface to 300 llithoms "), April 8, 1891 ; 

 lat. 10° 14' N., long. 9()° 28' W., 2232 fathoms; green mud; temperature, 

 surface 82°, bottom 35. °8, one specimen 9- [H. 67.] 



Station 3415, S. E. of Acapulco, April 10, 1891 ; lat. 14° 46' X., long. 98° 

 4!)' W., 1879 fathoms; l>rown nnid, globigerina ooze; temperature, surface 

 83°, botU»ni 36°; one specimen ^, No. 7960 B. [H. 68.J 



The female specimen from Station 3414 is very well prei?erved, and I have no 

 doul)t about \U being correctly referred to this sjiecies, for my friend Dr. 

 I'fclfcr and I compared it togetlier with the type 8|M.'cimen in the Haniburg 

 Museum. The only difference (tf any moment is that the tentacular club is 

 provided with three instead of four large hooks. The dark spots on either 



