110 CATALOGUE OF CEPHALOPODA. 



§§§ Sessile Arms provided iviili very unequal-sized Cups, the middle 

 one largest. Shell narrowed behind. 



28. Sepia capensis. 



Body ovate, oblong, smootli. Fins dilated behind. Sessile arms 

 short, strong ; cups spherical, peduncled, very unequal in size, 

 the middle one largest. Tentacular arms scarcely clubbed ; 

 cups slightly oblique, in three series, the middle series with 

 three much largest, and with the rings toothed on the inner 

 edge. Shell much depressed, oblong, elongate, enlarged, and 

 pointed in front, tapering, thin, very obtuse, and with an acute 

 projecting beak behind. 



Sepia capensis D'Orh. Tab. Meth. Ceph. Seiches^ t. 7. f. 1 — 3. 



1826, Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 283. ; D'Orb. et Feruss. Ceph. Acet. 



t. 7. f. 1—3. t. 12. f. 7—11. t. 17. f. 18, 19. 

 Sepia australis Quay Sf Gaim. Voy. Ast. Zool. 70. t. 5. f. 3 — 7. 



1832, not D'Orb. 1826. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 



Var. Shell larger, scarcely so arched and with much longer 

 spine than in M. D'Orbigny's figure. Perhaps a distinct species. 



a. Sydney. Shell. Dry. Presented by J. Edwards, Esq. 



b. Australia. Shell. Dry. Presented by A. Sinclair, M. D. 



R.N. 



4 § Doubtful Recent Species. 



29. Sepia mijcronata. 



Sepia mucronata Hafin. Precis des Decouv. Somiol. 29, 1814 > 

 UOrb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 299. 



Hab. Sicily. Perhaps this is the S. elegans. 



30. Sepia Antillarum. 



Sepia Antillarum D'Orb. Moll, des Antilles, i. 33. n. 8. 1838, MoU. 



Viv. et Fos. i. 300. 

 Sepia Brown, Nat. Hist, of Jamaica, 386. 



Hab. Jamaica. 



5 § Fossil Species. 



* Tertiary, Paris Basin. 



31. Sepia sepioidea. 



Shell thick, narrow behind ; beak thick, elongate, acute ; lower 

 lamina thick, reflexed, deeply radiated, edge toothed ; upper 

 callosity deeply rugose. 



