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ENDEAVOUR SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



Type.— A d", E2459 [S.S.B. 522], in the collection of the 

 Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Type Locality. — Investigator Strait Area, south of Kangaroo 

 Island, South Australia {" Endeavour ") ; IcT, 19. 



Recorded Distribution. — South of Kangaroo Island, South 

 Australia ; 80-120 fathoms, Great Australian Bight. 



Material Examined.- 



TABLE XXII. 



Remarks. — This magnificent Sepia I have been no more 

 able to identify Avith any of the previously described forms 

 than the two preceding species. The chief question comes 

 in with regard to the Sepia novaehollandiae, Hoyle {S.australis, 

 d'Orbigny, 1834, non Quoy and Gaimard, 1832). Unfortu- 

 nately this is one of the species known only from the shell, 

 a.nd the single published figure (d'Orbigny, 1834, Seiches, pi. 

 7, fig. 4) has not been accessible to me, that plate and the 

 corresponding pages of the text being lacking from my own 

 fragmentary copy of the Histoire. As the original locality is 

 given as " I'ile des Kangaroos, a la Nouvelle-Hollande," the 

 specimen came from the very midst of the region explored 

 by the " Endeavour " — excellent prima- facie evidence that 

 one of the three species here described may be identical with 

 it. As the sepiostaire of S. dannevigi is wholly unknown, and 

 that of S. hedleyi imperfectly so, a final solution of the 

 problem seems out of reach at the present time, but if 

 d'Orbigny based his description upon an adult specimen, the 

 dimensions given (long. 78 mm.) are so small as to avoid the 

 necessity of comparison with the great chirotretna. 



Assuming,- then, that the present species is not S. novae- 

 hollandiae, and I do not think it is, the only other forms 

 which would seem to require any particular comparison 



