172 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



par une massue lanceolee, armee d'une double ranges de tres petites cupules sessiles, dont 

 les plus grosses sont celles de la base, et d'une rangee laterals de quatre griffes." The con- 

 clusion from which is unavoidable, that in the passage translated there is a misprint 

 or lapsus calami of " sessiles " for " tentaculaires." 



Whence Tryon's statement iloc. cit.) that there are "two specimens only known" is 

 derived I cannot say; Gray^ mentions the existence of two examples in the British 

 Museum (which are still preserved) presented to him by Riippell, who probably did not 

 part with the whole of his collection. 



Tryon's definition of the genus Enoploteuthis (op. cit. p. 107) is inaccurate; the 

 phrase " tentacles with hooks only " is contradicted by the figure he himself gives (pi. Ixxv. 

 fig. 317, copied from Verany) of the tentacle of this very form. Verany's figure is, 

 however, not very accurate, and I have therefore given one taken from the specimen 

 from Amboina (fig. 11) ; this shows the proximal group of suckers not only to be much 

 larger than indicated in the above-mentioned drawing, but to consist partly of suckers 

 and partly of fixing cushions (" Hseftepuder," Steenstrup). The hooks vary in number 

 between three and four ; the club from which the drawing was made had only two, but 

 as there was a vacant space from which it had evidently fallen out I have supphed the 

 deficiency. 



Onychoteuthis, Lichtenstein. 

 Onychoteuthis, sp. 



Hahitat. — Ofi" Valparaiso, October 21, 1875, between the surface and 30 fathoms ; 

 and North Atlantic, April 12, 1876 ; surface. Too young and ill preserved for deter- 

 mination. 



Teleoteuthis, Verrill. 



Onychia, Lesueur. 

 Onyelioteuthis, Auctt. {pars). 



Teleoteuthis caribbsea (Lesueur), Verrill (PI. XXX. figs. 1-8). 



182L Onylda carribxa, Les., Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., vol. ii. p. 98, pi. ix. fig. 1, 2 a-e. 



1836. LoUgo laticeps, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., vol. ii. p. 108, pi. xxi. figs. 6-11. 



1837. Grandiia perlucida, Eang, Mag. de Zool., pi. xciv. 



1839. Onyelioteuthis cardioptera, d'Orb., C6ph. aci^t., p. 333; Cranchies, pi. iv.; Onychot., 



pi. V. figs. 4-6 {pars?). 

 1849. Onychia cardioptera. Gray, B.M.C., p. 57. 



1851. Loligo alessandrinii {?), V6r., Ceph, m(^dit., p. 99, pi. xxxv. figs., f. g. h. 

 1880. Onychia caribxa, Stp., Ommat. Btekspr., p. 96. 

 1882. Teleoteuthis carribxa, Vll., Ceph. N. E. Omer. (Fish Comm. Eep.), p. 70. 



Habitat. — North Atlantic, between St. Thomas, West Indies, and Bermuda ; surface. 

 Three specimens. 



' B. M. C, p. 48. 



