100 CATALOGUE OF CEPHALOPODA. 



? In spirits. Not good state. 



d. Torbay. Egg. In spirits. Presented by J. R. Griffith, 



Esq. 



e. Torbay. Young, one day old In spirits. Presented by 



J. R. Griffith, Esq. 



/. ? In spirits. Not good state. 



g-, h. Shell. Adult. Dry. Coast of England. 



i. Shell. Adult. Dry. Malta. Presented by Miss E.Attersoll. 



2. Sepia Rouxn. 



Body ovate, smooth, acuminate in front, rounded posteriorly. 

 Fins broad. Head smooth. The buccal membrane provided 

 with five prominent lobes ; lower part thicker, fleshy, without 

 any lobes ; the lower bands not marked externally. Sessile 

 arms elongate, unequal ; order of length, 4, 3, 2, 1 ; witTi four 

 rows of cups furnished with rings armed with long acute teeth 

 on their border side. Tentacular arms with six rows of cups, 

 the two middle rows composed of seven very large cups, armed 

 with rings, with short teeth all round. Shell ovate, oblong, 

 wrinkled and tuberculated, thickened underneath posteriorly, 

 with a short blunt beak, and a very thick convex diaphragm 

 occupies all the extremity of the cavity. 



Sepia Rouxii D'Orh. in Feruss. Ceph. Acet 271. n. 3., Seiches, t. 

 19. ; D'Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 290. 



Hah. Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Bombay. 



a. Tunis, Africa. Adult. In spirits. Presented by Mr. 

 Louis Frazer. 



h. The bone of a. 



c, d. Tripoli, Africa. Young. In spirits. Presented by J. 

 Ritchie, Esq. 



e, /. The bones of c, d. 



g, h, i. The bones dry. Young. 



j. Dalmatia. Young. In spirits. From Mr. Heckel's Collec- 

 tion. 



k. The shell ofj. 



3. Sepia Vicellius. 



Blackish, smooth. Sessile arms thick ; lower rather larger ; cups 

 rather large, in four regular series ; rings entire. Tentacular 

 arms moderate ; clubs moderate, slightly finned behind ; cups 

 smaller than those of the sessile arms, in five rows, the five or 

 six of those in the central line about treble the size, with dark 

 rings, very minutely and regularly bluntly toothed on the edge. 

 Shell oblong, rather attenuated above, dilated behind; apex 



