1916.] A. 1. Massy: Cephalopoda of the Indian Museum. 231 
The outline of the striated area of the shell seems a little 
different in these specimens to the description of the type and to 
the illustration of Appelléf (1886, pl. 3, fig. 7a). The present 
examples have no median indentation in the curved line which 
more resembles that of the shell of S. esculenta, Hoyle. The line 
is, however, somewhat irregular, especially in the earlier stages, 
and in all other respects there is no deviation from the description 
of the type. 
The smallest female examined has a mantle-length of 22 mm, 
and nidamental glands measuring 1°25 mm. in length. Measure- 
ments of three of the largest specimens are appended, also measure- 
ments of four shells :— 
Specimen number M 8129 @ M 8121 9 M 2114 9 
mm. mm. mm. 
Dorsal mantle-length —..,. 55 40 37 
Breadth of body + 22 19 17 
A 7) head ae 16 160 I4 
Ist right arm ae 10 1 14 
Zin esyy aan fe 15 12 II 
Bien ay et ie. 12 II 10 
Ate jp; oe 15 14 12 
Tentacle ais ... missing. ATI 324 
Club oe a GPSNO) 5 
Sepiostaire :— 
Specimen number M 2121 9 M 81353 @ M 3115 M 2135 9 
mm. mm. mm. mm. 
Length Fer 39 20 35 27 
Breadth ae Io 6 8°50 8 
Spine ae ca. 2 I 1°75 
Index "a 30 32 30 32 
Distribution.—Japan ; Indo-Malayan Region ; Pacific Region. 
Type.—In British Museum, one female. 
Sepia sp. 
These have a broad body, and dorsal mantle-length of about 
Io mm. The arm suckers are placed four ina row and have 
eight or nine teeth. The proximal tentacular suckers are placed 
two or three in arow. Suckers inthe central part of the club have 
ten teeth and are twice the size of those at the outer edge. The 
ventral mantle-margin shows a marked indentation below the 
siphon. Colour greyish-brown above, lighter beneath. 
Genus Sepiella, Gray. 
Sepiella inermis (van Hasselt, MS.), Steenstrup. 
(Plate xxiii, fig. 6; pl. xxiv, figs. I-9.) 
Sepia tnerymts, d’Orbigny, Cephalopodes acetabuliferes, p. 220, pl. 6, 
bis; pl. 20, figs. 1-9 (1839); Steenstrup, K. d. Vid Selsk. Skr. (5) 
VII, p. 478, pl. 2, fig. 3 (1875); Sepia sinensis, d’Orbigny, op. czt., 
p. 289, pl. 9, figs. 1, 2 (fide Gray) (1839); Sepia microcheirus, Gray, 
