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Material Exam ined. — 



No. Where Author's 



Sp. Locality. Sex. Collectors. deposited. Register. 



2 Same, Mutsu tf Jordan and L.S.J. U., 369 



Snyder Cat, 2,033 

 5 Bay of Tokio & 9 E. S. Morse Yale Univ. 367 



Mus., 



Cat, o,e:o 



1 Bay of Tokio 9 E.S.Morse S.S.B., 368 



coll., 2,404 



14 Tokio cf 9 Jordan and L.S.J.U., 370 



Snyder Cat, 2,034 



1 Okavama, Bizen cf AlanOwston L.S.J.U., 393 



Cat. 2,086 

 7 Kawatana, Hizen cf 1 9 Jordan and L.S.J.U., 371 



Snyder Cat. 2,035 



LoligO aspera Ortmann, 1888. 



Loligo aspera Ortmann, 1888, p. 661, pi. 25, figs. 3a-3d. 

 This species is so far known only from Kochi, Toza, the type 

 locality, and I am not aware that it has been observed since its 

 original description by Ortmann. 



Genus SEPIOTEUTHIS Blainville, 1S25. 

 [Sepioteuthis sinensis d'Orbigny, 1S39.] 



Sepioteuthis sinensis d'Orbigny, in d'Orbigny and Ferussac, 1839, p. 304. 

 Sepioteuthis sinensis d'Orbigny, 1845, p. 329. 

 Sepioteuthis sinensis Tryon, 1879, p. 154. 



D'Orbigny applied this name to a squid said to be eaten by the 

 Japanese. No specific characters have been given. 



Sepioteuthis lessoniana Ferussac, 1826. PI. VI, figs. 3, 5. 



Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Ferussac in d'Orbigny, 1S26, p. 155. 



Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Lesson, 1830, p. 241, pi. 11. 



Sepioteuthis Lessoniana d'Orbigny and Ferussac, 1S39, p. 302; Sepiot., pi. 1; 



pi. 6, figs. 9-14 (fide Hoyle). 

 Sepioteuthis Lessoniana d'Orbigny, 1845, p. 326. 

 Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Gray, 1849, p. SO. 



Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Keferstein, 1866, p. 1402, pi. 122, fig. 7. 

 Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Tryon, 1879, p. 152, pi. 62, fig. 212; pi. 64, fig. 213. 

 Sepioteuthis lessoniana Appellof, 1886, p. 31. 

 Sepioteuthis lessoniana Hoyle, 1886, pp. 27, 151, etc. 

 Sepioteuthis lessoniana Ortmann, 188S, pp. 657, 665. 

 Sepioteuthis lessoniana Ortmann, 1891, p. 676. 

 Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Joubin, 1894, p. 39. 

 Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Joubin, 1S98, p. 26. 

 Sepioteuthis lessoniana Hoyle, 1909, p. 265. 

 Sepioteuthis lessoniana Wiilker, 1910, pp. 11, 28, 36, etc., pi. 3, fig. 28; pi. 



4, figs. 29, 31. 



Body elongate, massive, dorso-ventrally compressed; contour elon- 

 gate ovoid, tapering rapidly to a blunt point behind. Mantle very 



