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Type.—K d, E2464 [S.S.B. 497], in the collection of the 

 Australian Museum, Sydney. A paratype [S.S.B. 497] has 

 been retained by the writer. 



Type Locality. — Investigator St. Area, south of Kangaroo 

 Island, South Australia ; (" Endeavour ") ; 4cf cJ*. 



Recorded Distribution. — 80-175 (450 ?) fathoms, Great Aus- 

 tralian Bight ; off coast of South Australia. 



Material Examined. — 



TABLE XVII. 



Remarks. — This, the most abundant Sepia in the " En- 

 deavour " collection, is a rather small, neat-appearing species, 

 which an exhaustive search of the literature has not enabled 

 me to identify with any previously described cuttlefish, either 

 from the Australian region or elsewhere. In the possession 

 of numerous small equal-sized suckers on the tentacle club 

 it reminds one of the species to be next described, but in 

 other respects is abundantly distinct. In the male the 

 peculiar hectocotylus furnishes a striking and easy means of 

 identification. 



Recognisable fragments of the sepiostaire could be secured 

 from only one 9 out of all the specimens seen, and even here 

 they were scarcely in condition for description or satisfactory 

 illustration. Because of the peculiar interest of the structure 

 to the systematist or to the beach collector, ho^^■ever, the 

 artist has done the best possible to reconstruct a characteristic 



