88 CATALOGUE OF CEPHALOPODA. 



Embalmed Calamary (Celajiio, Munster) Owen, Phil. Trans. 1844, 

 84. t. 4. 12.?? 



Fos. Upper Lias, Wurtemburg and Lyme Regis. 



9. Belemnosepia obconica. 



Shell conical, oblong, dilated in front, truncated; side wing narrow. 

 Geoteuthis obconica Munster^ Beitr. Petref. v. t. 9. f. 1. 1843. 

 Belemnosepia obconica UOrh. PaUont. univ. t. 29. f. 45. 1846, 

 Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 441. 



Fos. Upper Lias, Franconia. 



d. Shell horny, shorter than the Back. Fin short, on the Middle of 

 the Sides of the Back. 



9. ROSSIA. 



Body separate at the neck, purse-shaped, rounded behind, trun- 

 cated before. Cervical band none. Mantle supported in front 

 or below by a small tubercle, fitting into an elongate cartilagi- 

 nous groove at the base of the siphuncle, above at the nape a 

 central ridge received into a groove. Fins oval, oblong, broad 

 on the middle of the sides of the back. — Head large, depressed, 

 narrowed behind the eyes. Eyes large, lateral, superior, with 

 an inferior eyelid. Buccal membrane short, six-lobed. Ears 

 behind, a little below the eyes. — Sessile arms strong, thick, 

 conical, subulate, unequal ; cups fleshy, globular, sessile, in 

 two or four series ; rings horny, convex, toothless ; third and 

 Iburth pair distinctly webbed . Tentacular arms retractile into 

 a large subocular cavity, long, cylindrical, with clubbed and 

 finned ends ; without any protective membrane for the cups, 

 with pediceled spherical cups on two alternating lines ; 

 their rings swollen externally and toothed on the upper edge. 

 — Siphuncle without any superior band at its junction with the 

 head. — Shell horny, lanceolate, only occupying the anterior 

 half of the body. 



Rossia Owen, ''J. Ross, Voy. Append. 1835, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 1828 ; Weigm. Arch. \. 298. 1836; D'Orh. Cephal. Acep. 1839, 

 Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 235. 1845 ; Gray, Syn. B. M. 92. 1842, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847. 205 ; Moller, Ind. Moll. Groen, 3. ; 

 Loven, Ind. Moll. Scand. 3. 



Sepiola sp. Gervais Sf Van Beneden, Bull. Acad. Brux. 1 838 ; 

 Delle Chiaje, MS. ; Desk, in Lamck. Hist. ed. 2. xi. 221. 1845. 



