226 TEUTHID^. 



popularly by the name of squids. Their spawn is en- 

 veloped in oblong gelatinous tubes, numbers of which are 

 found adhering to a common mass by their lower ex- 

 tremities. 



L. VULGARIS, Lamarck. 



Fins flanking two-thirds of the body, and forming an oblong 

 rhomb. 



Plate LLL. 



Sepia loligo, Linnaeus, Syst, Nat. Ed. 12, vol. i. p. lOOfi. — Pennant, Brit. 



Zool. vol. iv. p. 53, pi. 27. — Bosc. Vers. p. 46. 

 LoIi(jo vzd(/a7-is, Lamarck, Mem. See. d'Hist. Nat. de Paris, p. 11. — An. sans 



Vert. vol. vii. p. 667. — Blainville, Diet, des Sc. Nat. vol. 



xxvii. p. 143. — Carus. Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. vol. xii. p. 



319, pi. 31. — Ferhss. and D'Orbigny, Tab. des Cepli. p. 63. 



— Ceph. Acet. Calmars. pi. 8, 9, 10, 22, (figs. 13 and 23) (fig. 



1 — 12). — Risso. Hist. Nat. Eur. Mer. vol. iv. p. 6. — Fleming, 



Brit. An. p. 252. — Blainville, Faun. Franc, pi. 3, fig. 0, p. 



15. — Philippi, Enum. Moll. Sic. vol. 1, p. 241. — D'Orbigny, 



Moll. Can. p. 23. — Moll. Viv. et Foss. vol. i. p. 336, pi. 18, 



fig. 1 — 12 and 1.0, fig. 2 — 4. — Johnston, Berw. Club Trans. 



i. p. 198. — Macgillivray, Moll. Aber. p. 29. — Verany,Mo11. 



Med. vol. i. p. 89, pi. 34. 



The body of this handsome animal is cylindrical ante- 

 riorly, tapering and gradually contracted from some dis- 

 tance in front of the middle to the caudal extremity. 

 For nearly two-thirds of its length, it is flanked by sub- 

 triangular fins, giving an irregular rhomboidal contour to 

 the hinder portion. The angles of the fins are obtuse. 

 These organs extend quite to the tail, and join there. 

 The head is short and broad, not over prominent in the 

 region of the eyes. The eight ordinary arms are stout and 

 rather short, somewhat lanceolate, or linear lanceolate in 

 shape, slightly webbed together at their bases. On their 

 inner sides they are furnished with two rows of oblique 

 suckers with eccentric oi^enings, of which the horny hoops 

 are armed on their broader side with teeth. The ten- 



