NOTES ON THE CEPHALOPODA. 279 



This fact would have an important bearing on the 

 question of the identity of this species with the Eledone 

 aldrovandi of the Mediterranean, which closely resembles it, 

 but has the tips of the arms like those of Eledone moschata, 



Eledone Pennantii and Eledone Aldrovandi of Macgil- 

 livray,* found near Aberdeen, are probably both referable to 

 this species, but the latter is rather doubtful ; it cannot, 

 however, be referred with more probability to any other. 



Sepiola atlantica, d'Orbigny. 



1839. Sepiola atlantica, d'Orb, Geph. acet., p. 235 ; Sepioles, pi. 



iv, figs. 1-12. 

 1853. Sepiola atlantica, Forbes and Hanley, British Moll, 



p. 217, pi. MMM, fig. 2. 



1869. Sepiola Bondeleti, JeflEreys, Brit. Conch., vol. v, p. 136 



{pars). 



Three female specimens, labelled " May 24, 1885." 

 This species has been confused with Sepiola Rondeletij 

 Leach, by most British naturalists ; even by one so eminent 

 as the late Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys. He remarks, that ** the male 

 [of S, Rondeleti] is Sepiola atlantica of d'Orbigny," a state- 

 ment that is absolutely without foundation, as both sexes of 

 both species are known, and both in the present one bear the 

 numerous rows of suckers, on the tips of the ventral arms, 

 which are characteristic of the species. 



All the three specimens submitted to me had been pre- 

 served in picric acid, a re-agent which, in future expeditions 

 should be avoided for Cephalopoda. 



Loligo media (Linne), Thomson. 



1767. Sepia media, Linn, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, p. 1096. 



1799. Loligo subulata. Lmk., Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, t. i, 



p. 15. 

 1844. Loligo media, Thomson, Mep. Brit Assoc, p. 248. 

 1849. Teuthis parva, Gray, Brit. Mus. Gat. Moll., vol. i, p. 76. 



* Moll. Anim. Scot., pp. 31, 32, 1843. 



