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wide so that only about a fourth to a third of the central portion is 

 calcified. Ventrally, the striated area occupies about two-thirds of 

 the shell. The margins are straight and the boundary line between 

 striated and smooth areas is an inverse rounded W. The longitudinal 

 groove is faint but easily seen. The inner cone is poorly developed 

 with a very narrow V-shaped inner cone with a more prominent 

 posterior section. It encloses a narrow but deep cavity. 



Measurements and indices of a female Sepia andreana Steenstrup 

 are: 



Type. — Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen. 



Type locality. — Japan. 



Discussion. — I have referred this specimen to S. andreana with 

 some hesitation. Firstly, it is a female and hence lacks the diagnostic 

 characters found in the male. Secondly, if it is andreana, it is some- 

 what out of its range because that species is a northern one, unreported 

 outside of the Japanese waters, whereas andreanoides Hoyle, 1885, is 

 the tropical species. With our small knowledge of these animals, 

 however, this geographical anomaly may prove to be of no conse- 

 quence. I have decided to place the specimen in andreana because 

 (a) the shell is narrow and strongly angled on the sides as Sasaki 

 stated is true for that species (this character does not show in Steen- 

 strup 's figure which is of a male) although he also showed this condi- 

 tion for ;S'. kohiensis var. toyamensis {= andreanoides) in a lesser 

 degree, (b) the disparity in size between some of the suckers of the 

 club (Sasaki stated that this disparity also occurs in a lesser degree 

 for certain variations of kohiensis), and (c) the expansions of the tips 

 of arms I. 



Having specimens identified by Sasaki of andreana and kohiensis 

 {=^ andreanoides) in my possession, I have compared my specimen 

 with them. It is referable as much to one as to the other. Sasaki's 

 kohiensis has a slight expansion of I, but it is far narrower in general 

 build; his andreana has no expansion of the arm tip, but it is about 

 the same shape otherwise. Despite the irregularities, my specimen 

 comes closer to corresponding to S. andreana and is so listed here. 



Grmipe (1922, p. 44) created a new genus, Andreasepia, for these 

 elongate forms, but this division does not seem warranted. 



Distribution. — Japanese islands; China Sea. 



