226 Records of the Indian Museum. [VoL. XII, 
It agrees with Appellof’s description as regards the presence of 
notches, in some cases amounting to teeth, on the rings of the arm 
suckers. 
The median tentacular suckers are a little larger than those 
at the margin (as observed by Joubin), and there are two larger 
than the rest at the tip of the club. Thirty to forty teeth are 
present on some of the tentacular rings. 
The crescent-shaped folds, or wrinkles on the dorsal skin, 
which frequently occur along the origin of the fin in this genus, 
are well-marked. The shell agrees closely with Hoyle’s descrip- 
tion except that the last loculus is shorter. The horny brown 
mass noticed by Joubin between the spine and inner cone is dis- 
tinct. Berry has remarked that this species is very nearly allied 
to S. aculeata, van Hasselt, in spite of the absence of suckers on 
the buccal membrane and that the shell is without the callosity 
of the inner cone. Besides these two important differences, it may 
be noted that the parallel lines of the striated area of the shell are 
always more or less evenly rounded in S. aculeata and never form 
the acute angle present in S. esculenta, and the fins, buccal mem- 
brane and sperm pad are all much thicker and narrower in 
S. aculeata. A number of sperms are adhering to the sperm pad 
in the present specimen. 
The principal measurements are appended :— 
mm. 
Dorsal mantle-length ... see se LOS 
Breadth of body he : 52 = na 73 
ato ead A ioe 58 
Fin maximum noe aAF Hey 20 
Ist right arm SCE 72 
Dinyol Gea. te nee 77 
ATs Ra Piles ie mee i 90 
HO ae ne Be ee LOO 
Sepiostaire :— 
Length: - Se STG © 
Breadth i 7 57550 
Spine (end broken) —_... Bae i ae 5 
Index shed ~ - a 13 
Distribution.—Japan ; Queensland. 
Type.—In British Museum, a male and female. 
Sepia elliptica, Hoyle. 
Sepia elliptica, Hoyle, Diagnoses, II, p. 189; Prelim. Rep., Il, p. 293 
(1885) ; ‘ Challenger’ Rep., XVI (Cephalopoda), pp. 131-3, pl. 109, 
figs. 14-24 (1886); Wilker, Abh. d. I/. Kl. d. k. Ak. d. Wiss., II1 
Supl.-Bd., I Abh., pp. 11-12 (1910). 
M £128 ‘Investigator’ station 90: 17-21-i1-1890, 8 miles E. S. E. of 
Kalingapatam Lt., Ganjam Coast, 28-30 fathoms—One 9. 
M £253 ‘Investigator’ station 366 : 10-iv-1906, Arabian Sea, 24° 45/ N., 
63° 50'15” E., 544 fathoms—One @. 
These two specimens differ a good deal outwardly, the small 
temale being of a greenish tint and the male of a beautiful purple- 
