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Todaropsis, Girard, 1890. 

 T. eblan« (Ball, 1841). 



Todaropsis Veranyi, Girard, 1890. 



, , ehlance, Hoyle, : 03, [description of type specimen]. 



Rhynchoteuthis, Chun (nee d'Orbigny).^ 

 Rhynchoteuthis sp., Chun, :03a, p. 716. 



Poulpe (Jeune age) ? Eydoux & Souleyet, Voy. "Bonite," p. 17, pi. i. 

 R. chuni, Hoyle, : 04, p. 32, fig. G. [Tropical Pacific] 



This genus (the name of which was preoccupied by d'Orbigny) 

 is probably based on the larval stages of an Ommastrephid. 



Cirrobrachium, Hoyle, :04. 

 C. filiferum, Hoyle, :04, p. 28. [N. of Marquesas Is.] 



Professor Chun has suggested to me that the filaments spring- 

 ing from the arms of this specimen were originally ribs 

 strengthening a web attached to the side of the arm : I think 

 this may very likely be the case, and if so the genus would find 

 its place in the Ommastrephidse. 



CniROTEUTHiDiE, Gray, 1849. 2 



Chiroteuthis, d'Orbigny, 1839. 

 Ficalbi ('99a) has maintained that Doratopsis vermicularis is 

 the young of a species of this genus, but this position is combated 

 by Pfeffer (:00): it has been reiterated by Jatta, :04, p- 193, 

 and quite recently supported by Chun, : 08. T do not think the 

 question can yet be regarded as settled ; see Ficalbi, :02, p. 37. 

 C imperator, Chun, :o8. [N"ias, Sumatra; Sagami Bay, Japan.] 

 C. macrosoma, Goodrich, 1896. 



Cheiroteuthis macrosoma, Nishikawa, : 06 [Japan]. 



C. veranyi (Ferussac, 1835). 



C. veranyi, Chun, 103, p. 74 [luminous organs]. 



Chiroteuthopsis, Pfeffer, : oo, p. 184. 

 It appears to me very doubtful whether this genus is well 

 founded ; Chun, : 08, regards it as a synonym of Mastigoteuthis. 

 C. grimaldii, Joubin, 1895, :03, p. 100. [55 miles N.N.W. 



of Fayal, 1900 metres.] 

 C. talismani, Fischer, H., and L. Joubin, : 06, p. 205 ; : 07, p. 

 342, pi. XXV. figs. 1-4. [S. of the Azores.] 



1 Pfeffer, 08, p. 88, proposes the name RhynchoteutMon as a substitute. 



2 Chun, :o8, divides this into three subfamilies — Mastigoteuthinse, 

 Chiroteutbinse, Grimalditeuthinse. 



