74 CATALOGUE OF CEPHALOPODA. 



fourth pair of arms unequal, rings -with eight or nine blunt trun- 

 cated teeth. Tentacular arms much enlarged at the end, with 

 rather unequal cups ; the rings of the largest very narrow, with 

 distant acute teeth, largest on the highest side ; lateral cups 

 oblique ; rings with very unequal teeth, shortest on the lowest 

 side. Shell pennate, enlarged, provided with three grooves 

 above, oblong, lanceolate, dilated anteriorly and posteriorly. 



Loligo Duvaucelli D'Orh. 8f Femss. Ceph. Acet. Calmars^ t. 14. t. 

 20. f 6—16. 1826 and 1839; D'Orl. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 350. 



Hob' India. 



May be the young of L. chinensis, but the rings of the cups 

 are very different from Fcrussac's figures. 



13. LOLIGO CHINENSIS. 



Body oblong, subcylindrical, acuminated behind. Fins rhombic. 

 Labial membrane with a few small cups. Sessile arms, third 

 pair largest, compressed, finned ; rings of the cups of the ventral 

 or lower pair of arms with many close acute teeth. Tentacular 

 arms with numerous rather large cups, and some very small 

 ones at the tip ; rings of cups with distant teeth. Shell trans- 

 lucid, lanceolate, rather dilated behind the central part, broad, 

 tapering ; upper part (called the stem) short broad. 



Hab. China. 



«, I. Canton market. Salted, now in spirits. Presented by 



T. Lay, Esq. 

 c, d. The shell of a, b. 



14 LoLiGo Plei. 



Body very elongate, cylindrical, acuminate posteriorly. Fins 

 rhomboidal, about two fifths the length of the body, outer angle 

 rounded. Sessile arms conico-subulate, very short, unequal; 

 order of length, 3, 4. 2, 1 ; cups oblique ; rings even, toothless. 

 Tentacular arms, club small ; cups unequal ; rings of the 

 largest smooth, toothless, of the smaller ones with acute points ; 

 of the small cups on the sides very oblique, with long teeth on 

 the higher side. Shell elongate, very narrow, lanceolate, with 

 three longitudinal grooves. 



Loligo Plei Blainv. Journ. de Phys. 142., Diet. Sc. Nat. xxvii. 

 145. 1823; Feruss. UOrb. Tab. des Ceph. 64. n. 14.; D'Orb, 

 Moll, des Antilles^ i. 42. n. 11., Paleont. univ. t. 11. f. 6., 

 Paleont. etrang. t. 9. f 6., Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 343. t. 19. f. 6. ; 

 UOrb. et Feruss. Ceph. Acet. Calmar.^, t. 16. t, 24. f. 9—13. 



Hab. West Indies, Martinique, and Cuba. 



