1 i2 ENOPLOTEUTIUS. 



Genus ENOPLOTEUTHIS, D'Orbiguy. 



A fossil of the Lithogi'nphif stone of the Upper Oxford, from 

 Eliclistadt, Bavaria, is referred to this genus ; the other species 

 of which are recent. 



E. Smithii, Leach. PL 75, figs. 311-315. 



Head with numerous lines of small tubercles, one series ex- 

 tending up each side of the back of the arms ; body smooth 

 above, with seven longitudinal lines of small rounded granules 

 beneath, the lateral lines irregular ; sessile arms square, the 

 dorsal pair slightly margined on the outer edge ; second pair 

 with a broad, membranous edge ; hooks about sixty ; tentacles 

 with lower group of ten small cups, half open, rest closed, and 

 ten hooks in two alternating lines. Shell lanceolate, rather 

 broad, outer edge regularly arched. Total length, 8 inches. 



W. Africa. 

 E. UNGUicuLATA, Moliua. 



This is only known through a portion of an immense sessile 

 arm, })reserved in the museum of the College of Surgeons, at 

 London. The animal is supposed to have been six feet in 

 length. The cephalic portion, together with parts of the arms 

 of a specimen of great size, referred doubtfullv to the same 

 species, have been described and figured by Harting, in Mem. 

 Amsterdam Acad., ix. 



South Pacific Ocean. 



E. MARGARiTiFERA. Riippell. PI. 75, figs. 31(i. 317. 



Body elongate ; fins rhombic, not quite half the length of the 

 body, acute on the sides ; eyes with five round tubercles on the 

 ventral side ; sessile arms rounded behind, not finned, the third 

 and fourth pairs much thicker ; tentacles scarcely clubbed, subu- 

 late and unarmed at tij), with a small round grou}) of four or 

 five cui)S at the base, and three or four small hooks in the 

 middle. Shell l)road, lanceolate, thin, transpareiit. 



Distinguished by its i)ointed body extending back of the fins, 

 and by the sessile arms having two rows of cups and one of 

 hooks. Two specimens only known. 



