Manchester Me^noirs, Vol. xlv. (1901), No. 6. 



VI. On a New Species of Sepia and other Shells 

 collected by Dr. R. Koettlitz in Somaliland. 



By W. E. HOYLE and R. Standen. 



Received and read December nth, igoo. 



In the year 189S, Dr. Reginald Koettlitz joined an 

 expedition which passed through Somaliland from Ber- 

 bera to the Blue Nile. He gave an account of the journey 

 to the Geographical Society of this city, which has 

 appeared in its Proceedings {Jouni. Manch. Geogr. Soc^Yol. 

 16, Nos. I — 3, 1900). The collecting of mollusca was not 

 one of the definite aims of the expedition, but a good 

 many were obtained, partly on the shore before the party 

 left for the interior and partly during the trip. All the 

 marine forms are from Zeila, nearly opposite Aden, and 

 were gathered on the beach, and hence many of them are 

 not in good condition. The material was handed over to 

 the staff of the Manchester Museum for examination and 

 description, and the results seemed worthy of being laid 

 before this Society. We have thought it well to indicate 

 by our initials those portions of the paper for which we 

 are severally responsible. 



CEPHALOPODA. 



Sepia koettliizi, n. sp. (Plate I.) 



The soft parts are unknown. 



The Shell* {PL I., Figs, i, 3) has a narrow elongated 

 oval outline, narrowing to a blunt termination in front, 

 tapering at first gradually, then more rapidly backwards, 



• The terminology is that adopted in the " Report on the Cephalopoda 

 collected by the ' Challenger'' Expedition (1886), p. 123. 



July joth, igoi. 



