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Pliocene Parana beds, which transgress far to the north of the Patagonian 
beds, contain a fauna which is no longer of Pacific but definitely of Atlantic 
character. J. A. T. 
British Antarctic (“Terra Nova”) Expedition, 1910: Natural History 
Report. 
Mollusca : Part II— Cephalopoda, by Annie L. Massy. Zool., vol. 2, 
pp. 141-76. 
Sixty-eight specimens of Cephalopoda were taken on the voyage of the 
“ Terra Nova ” and in the Antarctic, of which twenty-three were obtained 
from the New Zealand area, and were collected chiefly by surface netting. 
“ In the Pacific, off North Island, New Zealand, Moschites seemed to 
be entirely absent, but only six hauls of the bottom fauna were made in 
this region, and Cephalopods were only once present in shallow water on 
a shelly bottom, where four specimens of the very local Polypus australis- 
(Hoyle) occurred. Other species taken in plankton-nets in this region 
included Argonauta bottgeri Maltzan, which, as far as our knowledge goes,, 
is absent from the Atlantic and Arctic regions, and ranges in Polynesian 
and Indian seas from China and Hawaii to Australia and New Zealand ; 
Tremoctopus violaceus Della Chiaje, a cosmopolitan pelagic recorded from 
all seas except the neighbourhood of the Poles, the most northerly locality 
known being apparently Japan, and the most southerly the new records of 
the “Terra Nova”; larvae of Pyroteuthis (Pterygioteuthis) giardi Fischer,, 
a species with a wide range in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans ; 
Rhynchoteuthion, of a type recorded by Chun from the Indian and Atlantic 
Oceans ; Pyrgopsis pacificus (Issel), a species widely distributed in the 
Pacific, having been recorded from Japan to Tahiti; and Teuthowenia 
antarctica Chun, the type of which was taken at 55° 57' S., 16° 14' E. This 
species is very nearly allied to Teuthowenia megalops (Prosch), a species of 
the North Atlantic which has been found at various points from Green¬ 
land to the south of the Canaries. A specimen of Moroteuthis ingens E. A. 
Smith was taken at the surface off Three Kings Island. Pfeffer enumerates 
thirteen Patagonian examples of this species preserved in various museums. 
Hoyle records an example from the South Orkneys.” 
Of the above species only Tremoctopus violaceus has been previously 
recorded from the New Zealand region. The authoress states that the 
“ Terra Nova ” captures off Three Kings Island are the most southerly 
records of this species, but Suter states in the Manual that a specimen was 
taken off the Great Barrier Island. J. A. T. 
Crustacea : Part I— Decapoda, by L. A. Borradaile. Zool., vol. 3, 
No. 2, pp. 75-110. 
A list of twenty-nine species of crabs taken at or near the north end of 
the North Island is given, of which twelve are new, including one new genus. 
“ Nearly all the others have already been recorded from New Zealand waters. 
Of those which have not, Aegeon cataphractus is a very widely distributed 
species whose appearance need cause little surprise. The specimen which 
I have doubtfully referred to Arctus immaturus indicates, if the reference 
be correct, the occurrence of a Cape Verde species near New Zealand. In 
the moderately deep water to the north of New Zealand there is evidently 
a very rich and varied decapod fauna, which well deserves the attention 
of New Zealand zoologists.” 
Of the shrimp Crangon antarcticus Pfeffer a new variety (gracilis) is 
described, and the affinities of the species are considered at some length 
owing to the evidence it is supposed to show in favour of “ bipolarity,” 
