MARINE MOLLUSCA OF THE UNITED STATES. 9 
Mantle furnished with three internal cartilages, one dorsal and 
two ventral. Siphuncle with a valve. Fins angular. 
Family Loriginipa. Eyes covered with skin, simple. Mantle 
with three internal cartilages, one dorsal and two ventral. 
* Shell internal, calcareous, spiral, chambered, siphunculated. 
Family Sprrutip™. Eyes covered with the skin, with a lower 
eyelid. Mantle free all around. 
Family LOLIGOPSID.&. 
The members of this family have the eyes pedunculated and 
not covered by a skin; the fins are caudal, terminal, and semi- 
circular; the body is membranaceous, semipellucid, elongate, and 
tapering behind. They inhabit the high seas, and are powerful 
swimmers. 
Genus LOLIGOPSIS, Lamarck. 
Extr. de Cours. 1812. 
Leachia, Lesueur, Journ. Philad. Acad., ii. 89. 1821. 
Body very long, conical, attenuated. Shell flexible, slender, 
keeled above; very narrow, lanceolate, thickened at the tip. 
1. L. pAvo, Lesueur. Fig. 3. 
(Loligo.) Journ. Philad. Acad., ii. 96. 1821. 
Body smooth, spotted with red. Fins terminal, short, soft, 
narrow, outline together heart-shaped, not notched in front. Ses- 
sile arms slender, short, three upper pairs rounded. Cups much 
depressed, broad, oblique; rings smooth exteriorly, inner edge 
divided into square teeth. Tentacular arms slender. Shell elon- 
gate, very thin, nearly gelatinous, attenuated anteriorly, lanceo- 
late posteriorly. 
Arctic Seas, New England, New York, Madeira. 
Family ONYCHOTEUTHIDA. 
Synopsis of Genera. 
* Tentacular Arms with Hooks. Sessile Arms with Cups and Rings. 
Club of tentacular arm with hooks. Shell lanceolate, pennate, sides thin. 
ONYCHOTEUTHIS. 
Club of tentacular arm with hooks on the centre, and with two rows of 
small cups on each side. Shell lanceolate, pennate. ONYCHIA, 
* Tentacular and sessile arms with cups and horny rings. 
