NOTES ON OEGOPS1D CEPIIALOPOD.S FOUND IN JAPAN. 97 



Atlantic, Mediterranean, South of Cape of Good Hope. Verrill 18S0, p. 291, pi. xlv, 



figs, i-ib, 2-2d. Off Seal Island, Nova Scotia, from stomach of a cod. Verrill 1S82, 



p. 2S9, pi. xv, figs. r-IC, 2-2d. Steenstrup 1882, p. 143, pi. i. Japan. Hoyle 



1886, pp. 41, 174. Lit. 58°45'N., Long. 4S°3g'W. Hoyle 1889, p. 1 17-135, pi. xiii, 



xiv. Appel'.öf 1892, p. g. Jan Mayen. Pfeffer igoo, p. 163. Pfeffer igoSj p. 



71, figs. 80-84. Pfeffer igi2, p. 230, pi. xv, figs. 17-22. Greenland, Punta Arenas. 



— Berry 1912, p. 308, pi. Hi, figs. 1-4, pl. liii, pi. liv, figs. 1-4, pi. tv. Monterey Bay, 

 California; off San Nicolas Island, Cal.; oft" North Co;onado Island, Lower Cal. — 

 Berry igi2a, p. 424. 



C/ieloteuthis rapax, Verrill 18S1, p. 2g3, pi. xlix, fig. 1. 100 miles south of Newport, from 



stomach of a fish. Verrill 1881a, p. no, pi. ii, figs. i-if. Verrill 1S82, p. 286, 



pi. xv, figs. 3-3f, 4. 



Lestoteuthis fabricii, Verrill 18S0, pp. 291, 293, 3S7~3go, 428, pi. xlv, figs. 1, 2, pi. xlix, fig. 1. 



pi. lv. fig. I. Verrill 1882, p. 4x6, pi. xlv, figs. i-id. Dall 1886, p. 2cg. Bering- 



insel. 



Gomttis antarcticus, Lönnberg i8g8, p. 51, pi. v, figs. 4, 5. Punta Arenas. 



In the region of Japan and vicinity, specimens of the species are said 

 to have been obtained in Shumshu Island, Kuril Group (Middendorff) ; in 

 Bering Sea (Dall) and in Japan (Steenstrup). Japanese specimens have 

 not yet come under the author's observation. 



13. Gonatus tnagister Berry 191 3. 



Local name : Dosu-ika (Etchu Prov.). 



Gonatus fabricii^), Berry igi2, p, 310, pi. Iii, figs. 1. 2, pi. liii, pi. liv, figs. 1-4, p!. lv, figs. 



I, 3-7. Victoria, B.C.; Puget Sound, Wash. 

 Gonatus vuigister. Berry igi3a, p. 76. 

 Gonatus septemdettfatus, Sasaki igi5a, p. 185. Etchu Prov. 



The species is one which stands in very near relationship to Gonatus 

 fabricii (Lichtenstein), but differs from this in the following respects : 



Tentacles with very minute suckers only. Three dorsal pairs of arms 

 with 2 marginal series of small suckers and 2 central series of hooks, 

 except in basal and distal parts where there exist only suckers arranged in 

 4 series. Radula with 7 series of teeth ; middle tooth tricuspid, lateral 

 teeth bicuspid ; both marginals unicuspid. 



