14 AMERICAN MARINE CONCHOLOGY. 
Body cylindrical, obtuse posteriorly. Fins short, transversely 
oval. Shell dilated, very broad, central keeled, narrow in front. 
Delaware Bay (Lesueur), Fort Macon, North Carolina ; 
Southern Atlantic Ocean to Brazil. 
2. L. punoTaTA, De Kay. Figs. 10, 11. 
Moll., New York, 3, t.1,f.1. 1848. 
Body cylindrical, thick, somewhat tapering posteriorly. Fins 
broadly rhomboidal, nearly half the length of the body. Cups 
irregularly placed, numerous. 
This beautiful squid is nearly allied to the Z. Pealii of Lesueur, 
but this latter has the suckers arranged in two regular series. It 
has also a membrane along the lateral edges of the arms, and an 
acute termination of the caudal extremity. 
Fig. 11 represents a bunch of egg-cases and an embryo, highly 
magnified. (Copied from De Kay.) 
New York ; Connecticut. 
8. L. Praum, Lesueur. Fig. 12. 
Journ. Philad. Acad., ii. 92, t. 8, f. 1, 2. 1821. 
Body elongate, subconical, acuminated posteriorly. Fins rhom- 
boidal, thick, occupying about three-fifths of the length. Sessile 
arms long; cups very oblique, in two rows. Shell lanceolate, 
narrow. 
Entire Atlantic Coast. 
Genus SEPIOLA, Rondelet. 
Piscis et Aquat., i. 510. 1554. 
The body in this genus is round and purse-like, and the short 
dorsal fins are rounded and contracted at the base. Distribution 
universal. 
1. S. AtLantica, Orb. et Ferussac. Fig. 13. 
Céphal. Acet., 235, t. 4, f. 1-12. 1889. 
Sepiola vulgaris, Gervais & Van Beneden, Bull. Acad. Bruxelles, iy. No. 7. 
1849. 
Sepiola oceanica, Orb. Moll. Viv. et Foss, t. 10, f. 18. 1845. 
Fins oval, far apart. Sessile arms short, unequal, with two 
rows of cups; the lower pair with eight rows of smaller cups at 
the tip; proportionate lengths 3, 2, 4,1; cups small, oblique, in 
two series; lateral arms larger. 'Tentacular arms long. Shell 
linear, narrow, gradually enlarged upwards and spathulate behind 
the tip; sides thickened. 
Atlantic Ocean. 
