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striated area, curve outwards, and are united below the posterior apex by a broad, 

 chitinous band passing from one side of the shell to the other and forming a rather 

 deep Older cone: the spine is short (but has broken off) ; it bends slightly upwards 

 and has a narrow longitudinal keel on its ventral surface. 



Dimensions 



Length, total 90 mm. 



End of body to mantle-margin 64 



End of body to eye 60 



Breadth of body 28 



Breadth of head 26 



Eye to edge of umbrella 12 



Breadth of fin 7 



Diameter of largest sucker on sessile arm 75 



Length of shell 64 



Breadth of shell 22 



Right Left 



Length of first arm 20 19 mm. 



Length of second arm 20 18 



Length of third arm 20 21 



Length of fourth arm 23 22 



Length of tentacle 50 



This species agrees very closely with Sepia singaporensis Pfeffer, as regards the 

 soft parts, but the shell is broader at the anterior extremity and the spine cannot 

 be said to be "zuriick gebogen," although it slopes gently upwards; it also is near 

 to Sepia plangon Gray, which seems, however, to be still nearer to Dr. Pfeffer's 

 species. 



It corresponds with an unnamed shell in the Copenhagen Museum. 

 The smaller specimen has the curve bounding the loculi even, not wavy, and 

 the keel upon the spine is more distinct than in the other specimen. 



Type. — British Museum (Natural History). 



Type locality. — Challenger Sta. 188, in the Arafura Sea, south of 

 Papua, Sept. 10, 1874. 



Sepia recurvirostris (?) Steenstrup, 1875 



Sepia recurvirostris Steenstrup, 1875, p. 475. — HoyJe, 1886, p. 137. 



This species was taken off Tablas Island, Philippines. It repre- 

 sents the only record of sepiids from the Philippines in the Challenger 

 collections. Hoyle is quoted directly: 



A much mutilated shell was brought up in the trawl at the above locality; 

 unfortunately the posterior extremity, which furnishes the most striking character 

 of Professor Steenstrup's species, was wanting, but still the general form of the 

 body of the shell and the curvature of the lines in the striated area resemble the 

 type more than any other known to me, and as the locality is corroborative of 

 this view I refer it with a query to that species. 



Type. — Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen. 

 Type locality. — South China Sea. 



