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tacular arms with very numerous microscopic cups. Shell very 

 slender. 



Loligopsis vermicolaris Huppell^ Giom. del Gdbinetto di Messina^ 

 xxvi. 1844-5. 



Hah. Sicily. 



** Sides with Rows of acute Tubercles. Shell solid at Tip. — 

 Leachia Ze*S'zieMr, Perotis ^5cA. 



5. Loligopsis ctclura. 



Body elongate, rather fusiform, attenuated behind, whitish, 

 spotted with red ; sides with a longitudinal row of eleven 

 acute four-pointed tubercles, and many smaller ones. Fins 

 semicircular, broad, together subrhomboidal. Sessile arms 

 large, conical, very contractile, unequal ; proportionate length, 

 3, 2, 4, 1 . Cups nearly spherical ; rings oblique. Shell elongate, 

 thin, very narrow anteriorly, lanceolate, rather dilated behind ; 

 tip very sharp, attenuated, solid. 



Leachia cyclura LeSueur, Joum. Acad. Nat. Inst. Sac. Philad. ii. 



90. t. 6. 1821. 

 Loligopsis cyclura Feruss. Diet Class, ii. 68. pi. f. 3. 1823; UOrh. 



Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 370. t. 23. f 4. 

 Loligo Leachii Blainv. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxvi. 135., Joum. de Phys. 



1823, p. 124. 

 Loligopsis Leachii Feruss. D'Orh. Tab. de Ceph. 57. 1825. 

 Loligopsis guttata Grants Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. i. 21. t. 2. 1833; 



D'Orh. Ceph. Acet. Loligops. t. 1. f 1. t. 3. t. 4. f. 9—16. 

 Perothis pellucida Eschscholtz., MS. 1827. 

 Perothis Escholtzii Rathhe^ Mem. de VAcad. des Sc. de St. Petersb. 



par divers savans, ii. 149. 1835. 149. t. 1. f. 1 — 15. 



Hab. Indian Ocean. 



*** Doubtful Species. 



6. Loligopsis ? Peronh. 



Body fleshy, oblong ; the mantle subacute at the base, and finned 

 inferiorly. IVIouth terminal, surrounded with eight sessile and 

 equal arms. 



Loligopsis Peronii Lamck. Cours de Zool. 123. 1812, An. s. Vert. 



vii. 659.; Ferussac, Diet. Class, ii. 68.; Feruss. et D'Orb. Tab. 



Ceph. 57. ; D'Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 372. 

 Sepia sepiola Peronii LeSueur, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. ii. 



100. 1821. 

 Sepiola minima LeSueur^ 1. c. 100. 1821. 



