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Tentacular arms elongate, compressed; club scarcely enlarged, 

 covered only with cups, the lower ones in two series, the central 

 in four ; large of central scarcely oblique, the small lateral ones 

 very oblique; upper part with a multitude of small cups in 

 eight rows. Shell narrow, elongate ; lateral ribs largest ; apical 

 cone large. 



Sepia loligo Linn. Syst. Nat. edit. 12. 1095. n. 4. 1767; Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. edit. 13. 3150. ; Brug. Enc. Meth. t. 77. f. 12. 

 Sepia media Barbut, Gen. Verm. 75. t. 8. f. 3. 1788. 

 Loligo sagittata var. (3. Lamck. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris.) 13. 1799, 



Anim. s. Vert. vii. 665.; Blainv. Faun. Franq. 15.;- Payrau- 



deau, Cat. Moll. Corse, 173. n. 353. ; Risso, Hist. Nat. iv. 6. n. 



8. ; Guerin, Icon. Reg. Anim. t. 1. f. 5. ; Philippic Enum. Moll. 



Sic. 241. n. 2.; Cantraine, Nouv. Mem. Acad. Brux. xiii. 15. 



n. 1. 

 Calmar harper Montfort, Buff, de Sonnin. ii. Qo. t. 14. 1805. 

 Loligo illecebrosa LeSueur., Journ. Acad. Philad. ii. 95. 1821? 



Blainv. Did Sc. Nat. xxvii. 142., Journ. de Phys. 1823, p. 130.; 



Feruss. D'Orh. Tab. des Ceph. 63. n. 5., Ceph. Acet. Loligo, t. 



7. from LeSueur. 

 Loligo harpago Feruss. Diet. Class, iii. 67. n. 3. 1823. 

 Loligo Brongniartii Blainv. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxvii. 142. 1823, 



Journ. de Phys. 1823, p. 130.; Feruss. D'Orb. Tab. des Ceph. 



63., Ceph. Acet. t. 4. 1825. 

 Loligo piscatorum La Pylaie, Ann. Sc. Nat. iv. 319. 1825 ; Feruss. 



D'Orb. Tab. Meth. Ceph. 63. n. 6., Ceph. Acet. Loligo, t. 5. 

 Loligo Coindetii Verany, Mem. Acad. Sc. Torino, t. 1. f. 4. 1837. 

 Ommastrephes sagittatus D'Orb. Sf Feruss. Ommastrephes, t. 1. f. 



1—10. rings, &c. 1839; D'Orb. Paleont. univ. t. 22. f. 12—16., 



Paleont. etrang. t. 19. f. 12—16., Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 418. t. 



29. f. 12—16. 



Hab. Atlantic Ocean, Newfoundland, used in the codfishery. 

 Mediterranean, 



f I Tentacular Arms with Cups in four Roivs, those in the Centre oj 

 the middle Part rather larger. 



2. Ommastrephes ^quipoda. 



Body elongate, rather tapering behind. Fins rhombic, one third 

 the length of the body. Tentacular arms short, naked half 

 their length ; club compressed, winged externally, with four 

 series of regularly disposed cups, those of the sides and end 

 equal-sized, the twentieth or twenty-second in the two central 

 series of the middle part larger. 



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