SEPiAD-a:: sepia. 105 



Sepia officinalis Andouin^ Expl. Somm. des PI. d'JEgypt, t. 5. t. 1. 



f. 3. 1827. 

 Sepia Savignyi Blainv. Diet, des Sc. Nat. xlviii. 285. 1827; 



UOrb. et Feruss. Cephal. Acet. Seiches, t. 4.; D'Orb. Moll. 



Viv. et Fos. i. 287. 

 Sepia Savigniana Feruss. Seiches, t. 4. 1828. 

 Sepia Pharaonis Fhrenb^rg, Symh. Phys. An. Mollusc. Cephal. 



Sepiacea, n. 1. 1831. 



Hah. Red Sea. 



4* Tentacular Arms finned, with numerous, small, equaUsized Cups, 

 placed in eight or ten Lines. 



f Shell very narrow behind. 



15. Sepia aculeata. 



Body ovate, rounded, smooth, rather pointed behind. Fins broad, 

 thick, commencing rather behind the front edge. Sessile arms 

 elongate, unequal ; order of length, 4, 3, 2, 1 ; cups globular, in 

 four series, with rings minutely toothed all round. Tentacular 

 arms with very small cups in ten or twelve lines, with distant 

 acute teeth on the ring. Shell ovate, oblong, tubercularly 

 wrinkled, depressed, rounded at the ends, and with a long, 

 straight, acute beak, convex beneath in front, and concave 

 behind. 



Sepia aculeata Van Hasselt, MS. ; Z)' Orb. et Feruss. Ceph. Acet. 

 Seiches, t. 5. bis, t. 25. ; D' Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 296. 



Hab. Indian Ocean, Java. 



16. Sepia Eupelearia. 



Animal ? Shell elongated, very narrow, depressed, 



much arched behind, prolonged and acuminated in front; 

 bisulcated above ; one-ribbed longitudinally, posteriorly ; con- 

 cave underneath. 



Sepia Rupellaria D'Orb. Sf Feruss. Cephal. Acet. Seiches, t. 3. f. 

 10—13. 1839, shell ; D'Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 276. 



Hab. Neighbourhood of Rochelle, &c. Ireland? Ball, 1839. 



17. Sepia elongata. 



Animal ? Shell very elongated, narrow, pointed in 



front, enlarged behind, and provided with a wing-like expansion 

 and a long acute beak, rugose above, with a medial longitudinal 

 rib ; swollen beneath, gibbous in the centre. 



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