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named material available does not justify an attempt to identify them. The animals 
referred to and the localities were :— 
Ross’ Seal.—Station 165, 6th February 1903. 
Weddell’s Seal.—Station 326, Jessie Bay, South Orkneys, May 1903; Station 325, 
South Orkneys, 21st September 1903. 
Albatross.—Station 437, 3rd April 1904. 
Sooty Albatross.-—Station 376, lat. 64° 38’ S., long. 35° 13’ W. 23rd February 
1904. 
Emperor Penguin.—Station 248, lat. 69° 46’ S., long. 20° 58’ W. 21st February | 
1903. 
SYSTEMATIC LIST. 
CIRROTEUTHID A. 
Stauroteuthis sp. 
Locality.—Station 295, Weddell Sea. Lat. 66° 40’S., long. 40° 85’ W. 10th March 
1903. 2425 fathoms. One specimen [H 956].* 
This is probably either S. meangensis or S. hippocrepium, but in the mutilated 
condition of the body and the absence of the internal cartilage it is impossible to 
speak with certainty. It is just possible that it might be one of the species of 
Cirroteuthis, but this is less likely. 
A number of fragments and a few fairly complete examples of Crustacea were — 
found in the gizzard of this specimen, and an account of them has been published by 
Dr Tomas Scorr.t The most remarkable appears to be Pontostratiotes abyssicola, 
G. 8. Brady, which seems never to have been met with since the unique type was — 
obtained by the Challenger in mud from 2200 fathoms in lat. 37° 29’ S., long. 
27° 31’ W. ‘This is of interest as furnishing corroborative evidence of the deep-sea 
habits of the Cirroteuthidee. By a clerical error Dr Scorr gives the date of capture 
as 1908 instead of 1903. 
A water-colour drawing of this specimen, made on the Expedition, shows that the 
coloration very closely resembles that of Stawroteuthis hippocrepium, as depicted — 
in the Albatross Report;{ the colour of the body is, however, more deeply purple. 
As compared with Cirroteuthis wmbellata, Fischer,§ the arms are dull red instead 
of deep purple (though this may be owing to the oral aspect of the arms being 
depicted in one case and the aboral in the other), and the body is purple instead 
of pale reddish. 
* The numbers in square brackets refer to my own register of specimens examined, 
+ Ann. and Mag. Nat, Hist. (8), vol. v. pp. 51-54, pls. ii., iii., Jan. 1910. 
+ Hoye, Bull, Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. xliii., No. 1, pl. i. fig 1, pl. ii. fig. 1, 1904. 
§ Jounin, ‘‘ Céphalopodes de la ‘ Priticosge Alice,” pl. i., 1900 (1901). 
