60 CATALOGUE OP CEPHALOPODA. 



Loligo SBquIpoda Ruppell, Giorn. del Gahin. di Messina^ xxvi. 

 1844. 



Hah. Sicily. 



a. Sicily, Messina. In spirits. From Dr. E. Riippell's 

 Collection. 



ff f Tentacular Arms with two Series of small Cups at the Top. 



3. Ommastrephes todakus. 



Body short, thick, nearly cylindrical, spotted with red. Fins half 

 the length of the body, broad, together rhoniboidal. Sessile 

 arms unequal ; rings of cups with seven distant very oblique 

 cuttinof teeth on the higher side. Tentacular arms robust, with 

 cups nearly to the base ; scarcely clubbed ; cups at the base m two 

 series, in the middle in four series, middle ones larger, with the 

 rings with twenty acute teeth all round ; at the top in two series 

 of minute cups. 



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



Syst. Nat. edit. 13. 3150. n. 4. ; Shaw, Nat. Miscell. t. 363. 

 Loligo sagittata var. a. Lamck. Mem. Sac. Hist. Nat. Paris, 13. 



1799; Hist. An. s. Fer^. vii. 663. ; Fei^uss. Diet. Class, iii. 67. 



n. 2.; Carus, Icon. Sep. Nov. Acet. Phys. Med. xii. 318. t. 30.; 



Payraudeau, Cat. desc. Moll. Corse, n. 352. 

 Calmar fleche Montfort, Buff, de Sonnin. Moll. ii. 56. 1805. 

 Calraar du Bresil Montfort, Biff, de Sonnin. Moll. ii. 56. 1805. 

 Loligo todarus Pafinesque, Prec. Decouv. Som. 1814; Feruss. 



Ceph. Acet. Loligo, t. 1. 

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

 Loligo maxima Blainv. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxvii. 140. 1823, Journ. de 



Phys. 1823, 129. 

 Ommastrephes todarus D'Orh. Ceph. Acet. Ommastrephes, t. 2. 



f. 4—10. 1839, Paleont. univ. t. 22. f. 3. 11. t. 23. f. 5, 6., 



Paleont. Strang, t. 19. f. 3—11. t. 20. f. 5, 6 , 3Ioll. Viv. et Fos. 



i. 423. t. 29. f. 3— 11. t. 30. f. 5, 6. 



Hah. Mediterranean. 



** The third Pair of sessile Arms rvith a narrow fleshy Fin supported 

 by cross Ribs on the inner Edge of the ventral Side ; second 

 without Rudiments of Points on the Edge. 



4. Ommastrephes giganteus. 



Body elongate, cylindrical superiorly, violet-coloured. Fins broad, 

 occupying half the length, nicked in front, together transverse 



