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collections include one species {Onychoteuthis banksii) which was not taken by the 
Albatross. 
In addition to the above there have constantly been available the collections of 
cephalopods made by the Albatross during the Alaska salmon investigations of 1903 
and the dredgings off the California coast in 1904, together with the considerable series 
of west American and Japanese specimens owned by Stanford University. Although 
all of these have already been made the subject of reports (Berry 1912a, 1912b), their 
value for comparative study in the present consideration has been inestimable. 
The type specimens of new species together with certain others have already been 
assigned catalogue numbers by the authorities of the National Museum, and such numbers 
are carefully cited in the proper paragraphs of the following pages. In referring to the 
Stanford University material, I have for the sake of brevity adopted the University 
initials — U. S. J. U. — immediately succeeded by a catalogue number which has reference 
to the invertebrate series in the University collections. 
As will be seen, the material thus utilized lacks only Polypus hawaiiensis, Sym- 
plectoteuthis oualaniensis, and the clearly erroneous Loligo gahi and Polypus fontanianus, 
to embrace all the species known or reported from the islands, the great bulk of the records 
being nevertheless entirely new. The total number of specimens which I have personally 
examined is 210. These are distributed among 24 genera and include somewhat more 
than 29 species, only 4 of which have been previously recorded from the region. Some 
15 of these species it has been found advisable to describe as new, and it is quite probable 
that several of the 10 or more forms represented by specimens too immature or too poorly 
preserved for accurate determination belong to species not yet described. 
The Albatross collection has already formed the basis of two brief preliminary 
papers (Berry 1909, 1913), in which the majority of the new species were tersely described 
and in the first of which a provisional check list of all the species was also given. 
HISTORICAL SURVEY. 
With the exception of the two papers which have been just referred to as preliminary 
to the present report, no work specially devoted to Hawaiian Cephalopoda has ever been 
published. Even the scattered references contained in volumes of wider scope are not 
numerous and only to be found by dint of the most exhaustive searching. Despite 
its brevity, therefore, the following cursory survey of the literature is thought to be 
practically complete. 
I have been unable to determine to what author belongs the honor of first bringing 
a Hawaiian member of our group to the public notice, since Gould in America and 
Soule yet in France both published in the same year. The latter author, reporting in 
1852 on the mollusks taken during the voyage of the Bonite, describes only a single species 
from the islands, the Octopus hawaiiensis, a form which would naturally be expected 
to be abundant, but which has not been recognized with any certainty since. 
In the magnificent memoir by Gould (1852) on the Mollusca of the Wilkes exploring 
expedition, two Hawaiian species are described for the first time, both of them common 
littoral forms, namely, Octopus ornatus Gould, and Sepioteuthis arctipinnis Gould. 
