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Sepiid^. 

 Sepia australis, Quoy and Gaimard, 1832. 



Locality. — Station 480, eight miles north of Dassen Island, Cape Colony. 35 

 fathoms. 18th May 1904. One specimen, ? [H 932]. 



Previous Records. — Cape of Good Hope, Agulhas Bank ; North Queensland ; 

 New South Wales. 



This is not S. australis, d'Orbigny : that author changed Quoy's name to S. cajyensis, 

 and gave the name S. australis to a quite different form. 



The tentacular club (fig. 8) shows three suckers much larger than the others, 

 which diminish in size towards the tip, the third being about half the diameter of 

 the first. 



Fig. 8.— Tentacular club of Sepia australis [H 932]. x7-5. 



Hemisepius typicus, Steenstrup, 1875. 



Locality. — Station 482, Saldanha Bay, Cape Colony. 19th May 1904. 

 fathoms; trawled. Two specimens, $ [H 933 and 1380]. 

 Previous Record. — Table Bay, Cape Town. 



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Onychoteuthid.b. 



Onychoteuthis ingens, Smith, 1881. 



Locality.— OS the South Orkney Islands. Lat. 60° 10' S., long. 42° 35' W. 

 6th February 1903. From the stomach of a Ross' seal: a number of half-digested 

 fragments [H925]. 



Station 325, Scotia Bay, South Orkneys. 1st January 1904. One specimen [H 928]. 



(rot. SOC. EDIN. TRANS., VOL. XLVIIL, 281.) 



