Boone, Mollusca, Cruises of "Ara" and ''Alva" 341 



Hist. Nat. Cephal. Acetab. vivants et fossiles, Paris, 1839, 

 p. 349, pi. 2. 



Ommatostrephes sagittattis, Forbes, Edw. and Hanley, Syl., 

 Hist. British Mollusca and their Shells, 1853, vol. IV, p. 233, 

 t. RRR. — Naef, Adolf, Die Cephalopoden, Fauna u. Flora 

 des Golfes von Neapel, Monogr. XXXV, teil I, Bd. I, 1923, 

 p. 445, text figs. 228-251, and pi. 6, figs. 1-3, pi. 12, figs. 2 and 

 5, pi. 14, fig. 6, pi. 17, fig. 10, Bd. II, pis. 9, 10 and 11 (egg 

 and larval stages ; Dr. Naef gives an exhaustive study of this 

 species from egg to adult, with major synonymy to 1923). 



Rhynchoteuthis, CHUN, C, Zool. Anz. Bd. XXVI, 1903, p. 716, 

 and three text figs. ; Wiss. Ergeb. Deutsch, Tief see Exp. Val- 

 and three text figs. ; Wiss. Ergeb. Deutsch, Tiefsee Exp. "Val- 

 divia," 1910, Bd. I, Oegopsida, p. 201, pis. 28, 29. 



Suborder: Sepioidea 

 Family: SEPIIDAE 



Genus: SEPIA Linne 



Sepia rouxii d'Orbigny 



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Plate 144 



Type : The type locality cited by d'Orbigny is "Red Sea; Bom- 

 bay." His material is deposited in the Paris Museum. 



Distribution : This species is known from the Red Sea east- 

 ward, including Suez (Hoyle), off Negombo, Gulf of Manaar 

 (Hoyle), Bombay (d'Orbigny), Mulaki Atoll, Maldives, 28 

 fathoms, and eastward and northward beyond Formosa, includ- 

 ing the Philippine Archipelago, Papua, New Guinea, and the 

 Malay Archipelago and probably the northern coast of Australia 

 (Hoyle) ; Georgetown, Penang, Malay Straits (Boone). 



Material examined: One specimen, taken at Georgetown, 

 Penang, Malay Straits, November 13, 1931. 



Technical description: Body stout, compressed, subcylin- 

 drical, tapering posteriorly to a subacute apex. Anteriorly the 

 free edge is produced to wide, blunt, triangular point on the median 

 dorsal area, on either side of which it tapers toward the lateral 

 margin; on the ventral surface the median margin is widely, 

 slightly concave below the siphon. The caudal fins begin a short 



