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MADOKA SASAKI. 



2. Architetti his martensii (Hilgendorf 1880). 



Megateutlùs maritimi, Hilgendorf 1880, p. 65. Tokyo market. 



Archìteuthtts martensii, Steenstrup 1882b, p. 157. Berry 1912a, p. 433. 



Arehiteitthis martensii, Pfeffer 1912, p. 31. 



This species is possibly identical with A. japonica Pfeffer, but as 

 Hilgendorfs original description of it is based on a defective specimen, a 

 definite decision of the point must be left to the future. 



Fani. Onychoteuthidae Gray 1849. 

 Subfam. Onychoteuthinae Pfeffer 1912. 



Genus fjnychoteuthis Lichtenstein 18 18. 

 3. O nychotettthis batiksii (Leach 18 17). 

 Local name : Tsume-ika (Tokachi). 

 Juoligo banksii, Leach 1817, p. 141. 



Onychoteuthis banksii, Fér. et d'Orb. 1839, p. 330, Onychot. pis. i-v, vii, ix, pl. xii, figs. i-g. 



— Gray 184g, p. 53. Goodrich 1896, p. 11. Sandheads, Bay of Bengal. — Pfeffer 



1900, p. 15g. Hoyle 1904, p. 35. Tropical Pacific Ocean. Hoyle igo4a, p. 19. 



— Pfeffer igoSa, p. 65, figs. 71-77. — Pfeffer igi2, p. 70, pi. iii, figs. 13-25, pis. 

 iv-vi. Many examples from the temperate and tropical regions of all the oceans and 

 seas. Berry 1914, p. 322, text-fig. 31. Laysan Island. 



A single Ç specimen captured by the Takashima Fishery Institute 

 steamer "Tankaimaru" at Ötsu, Tokachi Prov., Hokkaido, August 1, 191 3. 

 Mantle-length 2S3 mm. This widely distributed species has hitherto been 

 known, so far as concern the Japanese waters, only from Formosa (Pfeffer 

 1912). 



Genus MoroteulhlS Verrill 1880. 

 4. Morolettthis robusta Dali 1876. 



Moroteutìiis robusta Dali MS., Verrill 1876, p. 236. Iliulik, Unalaska. Verrill 1880, pp. 



195, 246, 395, pis. xxiii, xxiv. Verrill 1882, pp. 275, 419, pis. xiii, xiv. Pfeffer 



igoo, p. 161. Pfeffer igo8a, p. 68, figs. 78, 7ga, b. Pfeffer igi2, p. 105. 



Ishikawa & Wakiya 1914, p. 435, pis. xliii, xliv. From stomach of a sperm whale 

 caught in the open sea off to the south of the Strait of Tsugaru. 



