CEPHALOPODA.—BERRY. 
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however, are lacking. The surface is smooth and the color paler, besides showing a 
characteristic finely punctate condition due to the smaller number and greater dis¬ 
tinctness of the chromatophores. 
Fig. 25.— Moschites harrissoni. 
Rhachidian teeth. X 55. 
From the data given on three pencilled labels * accompanying the largest specimen 
I have no doubt that it is the one referred to in “ The Home of the Blizzard ” (Mawson 
:15, vol. 2, p. 127), the note being worthy of reproduction here— 
“ Harrisson contrived a winch for sounding and fishing. Fourteen-gauge 
copper wire was wound on it and, through a crack in the sea-ice a quarter of a 
mile from the glacier, bottom was reached in 260 fathoms. As the water was 
too deep for dredging, Harrisson manufactured cage-traps and secured some 
fish, a squid, and other specimens.” 
This species appears to have been obtained only in the neighborhood of the 
Shackleton Ice-shelf, Queen Mary Land, though I cannot discover any good physio- 
graphical reason why it should not have turned up along with M. albida or M. adelieana 
farther to the eastward. Records to show the further distribution of all these forms 
will be awaited with interest. 
The radula of M. harrissoni is much more like that of M. aurorce than any of the 
other species, the similarity being so very strong as perhaps to indicate close relationship. 
The divided funnel organ offers evidence in the same direction. 
* The three labels read as follows :— 
No. 1.—“ Mollusca—Cephalopoda— Order Octopoda—Depth 270 (?) Fathoms—Trapped at 2d Base.” 
No. 2.—“ From Western Base—Shackleton Glacier—-Queen Mary Land—Coll, by C. Harrisson.” 
No. 3.—“ Mollusca—-Cephalopoda— Order Octopoda—-Depth 270 fathoms—Captured at Second Base—C. T. H.” 
