SEPIAD^: SEPIA. 101 



blunt, not produced beyond the horny part at its base ; back 

 rugose, subconcentric. 



Hob. — ? 



a. In spirits. 

 h. Its bone dry. 



4. Sepia Hierredda. 



Body ovate, depressed, rather tuberculate. Fins broad. Head 

 with a beard on each eye. Ear with a longitudinal and a trans- 

 verse ridge. Sessile arms thick, unequal ; order of their length, 

 4, 3, 1, 2 ; rings of cups with small teeth. Tentacular arms 

 with very unequal cups in six lines, the middle ones being very 

 large ; the rings entire. Animal brown and yellow marbled, 

 white-spotted, and with a series of six white lines on the 

 sides. Shell ovate, compressed, wrinkled above, acuminated 

 anteriorly, rounded posteriorly, with a long curved beak ; the 

 last plate in all ages occupied half the cavity. 



Sepia Hierredda Rang, UOrh. et Feruss. Seiches, t. 13., Magaz. 

 de Zool 75. t. 100.; UOrh. Moll, des Canar. 21. n. 5., Moll. 

 Viv. et Fos. i. 278. ," UOrh. et Feruss. Ceph. Acet. 268. n. 2., 

 Seiches, t. 13. t. 18. 



Hah. Atlantic Ocean, Coast of Africa, Cape of Good Hope, 

 Island of Teneriffe. 



5. Sepia latimanus. 



Body ovate, smooth, truncated in front, pointed behind. Fins 

 narrow, blue -edged. Sessile arms slender, quadrangular, elon- 

 gate, unequal; order of length, 4, 3, 2, 1 ; with four rows of cups; 

 horny rings with very fine, close teeth. Tentacular arms dilated, 

 strongly palmated, with five lines of cups, with six or eight very 

 large ones, having their horny rings plaited on the edge. Shell 

 oblong, rounded anteriorly, obtuse posteriorly, longly and 

 acutely beaked. 



Sepia latimanus Quoy ^" Gaim. Zool. Voy. Astrol. ii. 68., Atl. Moll. 



t. 2. f. 2. 11. 1832 ; UOrh. et Feruss. Seiches, t. 12. f. 1—6. t. 



17. f. 16, 17. (1839) ; UOrh. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 291. 

 Sepia Bappiana Feruss. PI. des Seiches, n. 10. (1834). 



Hah. Indian Ocean, New Guinea, and the Celebes. 



6. Sepia tuberculata. 



Body ovate, tuber culated ; tubercles very unequal, divided into 

 lobes. Fins narrow. Head tuberculated on the back, sides, 

 and round the eyes, smooth below. Sessile arms short, '^*-^. 



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