24 Chapman, Some Sepias New or Little Known, [vo^^xxix 



New South Wales.* Mr. Hedley also suggested {loc. cit., p. 

 134) that the Tasmanian record of S. elongata, D'Orb., was 

 probably based on 5. hraggi, and this surmise has proved correct, 

 since Mr. W. L. May has lately published a note to that 

 effect, t 



The largest specimen of 5. braggi I collected from Torquay 

 (since presented to the National Museum. Melbourne) has the 

 following dimensions : — Length. 62 mm. (the length given for 

 the type by Dr. Verco is 60 mm., whilst Dr. Pritchard's example 

 was of exactly the same length as our specimen, 62 mm.) ; 

 breadth at widest part of the proostracum, 13 mm. ; greatest 

 thickness, 5.5 mm. ; the mucro. from base of attachment to 

 apex, is 2.25 mm. in length. 



On the ventral surface the shell lamiuce in this species are 

 close and symmetrically arched, with a V-sha])ed sinus on the 

 central axial groove. 



Mr. Kershaw has kindly shown me the specimens of Sepia 

 in the National Museum collection, and I am able to record, 

 with his permission, 5. hraggi from Frankston, Victoria, and 

 Botany Bay, New South Wales ; these were collected by the 

 late Mr. W. Kershaw. Specimens collected by the late Mr. 

 J. Dennant, F.G.S., from Spring Creek, Torquay, are also in 

 the Museum collection. Mr. J. C. Chubb, of the National 

 Museum, has also found the species at Point Nepean. 



Sepia capensis, D'Orbigny. — The other species accompanying 

 S. braggi at Torquay I have identified as 5. capeiisis, D'Orb. J 

 It somewhat resembles S. citltrata (Steenstrup, MS.), Hoyle,§ 

 but the mucro is regularly smooth and retroflexed, and not 

 vertically ridged as in 5. cultraia. S. capensis is recorded off 

 the Cape of Good Hope, and it occurs along the Australian 

 coast in New South Wales, where Whiteleggc records it from 

 Port Jackson. || 



Dimensions of a typical specimen : — Length, 120 mm. ; 

 breadth, 42 mm. ; greatest thickness, 10.5 mm. ; the mucro, 

 from base of attachment to apex, 6.5 mm. 



In the National Museum collection specimens obtained by 

 the late Mr. W. Kershaw came from Botany Bay and Watson's 

 Bay, New South Wales. Besides the Torquay occurrence, 

 S. capensis has been collected at Kilcunda (W. D. Chaj)- 

 man). 



* Kec. Austr. MusT, vol. vii., No. 2 (1908), p. 134 ; see also Gatlift unci 

 (;abriel, Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict., vol. xxii. (N. S.). pt. i. (1900). p. 38. 



t Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas. (1910-1911), p. 307. 



t D'Orbigny (1826), Ferussac and D'Orbigny (1835-1848), Hist. Nat. 

 Ceph., p. 278, pi. vii., figs. 1-3, pi. .\ii., ligs. 7- 11. pi. xvii., figs. 18, 19. 



§ Rep. Ohall., Zool., vol. xvi., p. 133, pi. xx. 



il Journ. and Proc. Roy. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. xxiii. (1889), p. 282, 



