90 CATALOGUE OF CEPHALOPODA. 



Tentacular arms long, slender. — Body, head, and arms pale 

 rose-coloured, red-dotted. 



Sepiola subulata Eyd. MS. ; Gervais et Van Beneden, Bull, de V 

 Acad. Roy. de Bruxelles^ v. n. 7. 1838 (^ote sur le genre 

 Sepiola.) » 



Rossia subulata UOrh. Sc Fer. Cephal. Acet. 249. n. 3. 1839, Moll. 

 Viv. et Fos. i. 259. 



Hah. Indian Ocean, Manilla. 



** Cups of lateral tliree Pairs of Arms very large., pedimcled., 

 distant ; Cups of other arms small, crowded, equal. Tenta- 

 cular arms tapering. — Heteroteuthis. 



4. ROSSL'^. DISPAK. 



Body ovate, rounded, and rather tapering behind. Fins roundish, 

 rather behind the middle of the back. Sessile arms rounded 

 externally ; fovir upper pairs slightly webbed together, third and 

 fourth slightly webbed on the side, ventral pair separate below ; 

 cups small, globular; thbd pair finned, with a very few large 

 globular cups. Tentacular arms slender ; club scarcely marked, 

 compressed externally, with very minute cups placed in several 

 series. 



Rossia dispar Rilppell, MS. Brit. Mus. 



Sepiola dispar Riippell, in Giorn. del Gabin. di Messina, xxvi. 



1845. 

 Hab. Sicily. 



a, h. Sicily. In spirits. From Edward Rlippell, M. D. 



*** Cups peduncled. 



5. Rossi A ? Owenii. 



Cups large, distinct, on long peduncles, arranged in three rows, 

 those of the centre row not half the size of the side ones ; on the 

 first pair of arms more numerous, more equal in size, and 

 smaller, than on the other arms. 



Rossia Owenii Ball, Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. 1843; Thompson's 

 Report of Brit. Assoc. 1843, p. 248. ; D'Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. 

 i. 259. n. 4. 



Hab. Ireland, Dublin Bay. Ball, 1839. 



6. RossiA ? Jacobi. 



Larger than R. Owenii ; arms shorter ; cup smaller. Mouth 



