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•ff The sessile Arms with two Rows of Cups ; the lower Pair with 

 eight Rows of smaller Cups at the Tip. 



4. Sepiola atlantica. 



Body oblong, purse-shaped, rounded beliind. Fins oval, far apart. 



Sessile arms short, unequal ; proportionate length, 3, 2, 4, 1 ; 



cups small, oblique, in two series ; lateral arms larger ; fourth 



or the ventral pair with two rows at the base, seven or eight 



crowded rows of smaller cups at the tip. Tentacular arms 



rather long. Shell linear, narrow, gradually enlarged upwards, 



and spathulate behind the tip, sides thickened. 

 Loligo Sepiola Bouchard^ Cat. des Moll. Mar. du Boulonnais, 71. ? 



1835. 

 Sepiola vulgaris Gervais Sf" Van Beneden^ Bull, de TAcad. de 



Bruxelles, iv. n. 7. 1838, not Grant. 

 Sepiola atlantica D'Orh. Sf Fhuss. Cephal. Acet. 235. n. 4., Se- 



pioles, t. 4. f. 1—12. 1839 ; D'Orhigny, Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 247. 



t. 10. f. 1—12. 1845. 

 Sepiola occanica D'Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. t. 10. f. 13. 1845. 



Hab. Atlantic Ocean. 



Mo D'Orbigny, at page 247., describes the dorsal pair of sessile 

 arms as having four rows of cups, but he does not mention this in the 

 longer description. The British specimens in the British Museum 

 do not belong to this species. 



ff f The sessile Arms with eight Rows of Cups. 



6. Sepiola stenodactyla. 



Body short, rounded behind. Fins subcircular. Head large. 

 Sessile arms thick and short, rather unequal ; cups large, 

 spherical, in seven or eight rows, rather irregularly disposed. 

 Tentacular arms long, slender ; club indistinct ; cups very 

 minute. — Purple, arms cross banded. 



Sepiola stenodactyla Grants Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1833, i. 84. t. 

 11. f. 1, 2. and f. 6. apex of sessile arms; Gei^vais et Van 

 Beneden, Bull, de VAcad. de Bruxelles, v. n. 7. from Grant ; 

 D'Orb. et Feruss. Ceph. Acet. 238. n. 5., Sepioles, t. 2. f. 1, 2. 

 6. ; D'Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i, 252. n. 4. 



Hab. Mauritius. Mus. Zool. Soc. 



The name stenodactyla must have originated in a mistake, for 

 Dr. Grant expressly says the arms are proportionally much thicker 

 and shorter than in S. vulgaris^ 1. c. p. 85. 



