SKI'IOLA. IT)? 



S. Japonica, Fer. and Orb. 



Body oblong ; fins widened ; cups of sessile arms in two alter- 

 nating lines, with a clavate muscular tube between them ; ten- 

 tacles long, cylindrical, scarcely enlarged at the clubs, with very 



minute suckers. Not figured. 



Japan. 

 \ f Sessile arms wU7i eight rows of cups. 



S. STENuDACTYLA, Grant. PI. G(), fig. 239. 



Body short, rounded behind ; fins subcircular ; head large ; 

 sessile arms thick and short, rather unequal ; cups Ir.rge, spheri- 

 cal, in seven or eight rows, rather irregularly disposed ; ten- 

 tacles long, slender, club indistinct, cups very minute or scarcely 

 developed. Purple, darker spotted and cross-banded on the 



arms. Length to end of sessile arms, 3 inclies. 



Mauritius, 



* ■■'■ Body and head tubercular heneaih ; internal cartilage of manile broad, 

 contracted in the middle = Sepioloidea, Orb. 



S. LiNEOLATA, Quoy and Gaim. Pi. 6B, fig. 242 ; pi. (57, figs. 

 240, 241, 243. 

 Head and body smooth above, strongly tubercular on the 

 sides beneath, tubercles with horny centres ; dorsal edge of mantle 

 bearded ; body short, rounded ; sessile arms short, quadrangular, 

 rather unequal, two upper pairs slenderer and shorter, and 

 webbed at the base ; cups hemispherical, in two alternate regular 

 series on the base, and then small and in four series, their rings 

 very high, with an external border ; tentacles slender, lanceolate 

 at the end, and with twenty series of very numerous, exceedingly 

 small, crowded cups. Whitish, with longitudinal blue or opaque 

 white lines. Length to end of sessile arms, 2^ inches. 



Jarvis Bap, Australia. 

 Doubtful species. 



S. Penares, Gray. PI. 67, fig. 244. This species is the type of 

 Gray's genus Fidenas, which does not seem to posse.ss any dis- 

 tinctive characters to sepai'ate it generically from Sepiola, except 

 that the suckers are long-peduncled, and the peduncles are con- 

 stricted on the upper part. The specimen, in spirits, is described 

 as " not good state, lost the pedunculated arms. Shell — ? or 

 none.'' -I copy an original figure in H. & A. Adams' Genera. 



/Singapore. 



