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work, will show that there is really reason to believe in 

 the likelihood of two species being confounded under one 

 name. It is possible that both inhabit our seas, since 

 Pennant's figure agrees better with Verany's than with 

 ours. 



L. MEDIA, Linnaais. 



Body elongated, subulate, produced and acuminated posteriorly, 

 fins narrow and rounded. 



Plate QQQ, fig. 1. 



Sepia media, Linnaeus, Sj'st. Nat. Ed. xii. vol. i. p. 1095. — Pennant, Brit. 

 Zool. iv. p. 54, pi, 20, fig. 45. — Bruguiere, Enc. Meth.pl. 7C, 

 f. 9. 

 „ suhuluta, Bosc. Vers. p. 4C. 

 Loliyo „ Lamarck, Mem. Soc. d'llist. Nat. Paris, i. p. 15. — Blainville, 

 Diet. Sc. Nat. t. xxvii. p. 143. — Fekussac and D'Orbignv, 

 Tab. des Ceph. p. 63. — D'Orbignv, Cepii. Acet. Calniars, pi. 

 17, 23, fig. 19, 13— 21.— Ball, Pro, Royal Irish Acad. vol. ii. 

 p. 192.— Thompson, Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1844, p. 24!!. 

 „ media, Fleming, Brit. An. p. 253. — Alder, Cat. Moll. Northumb. p. 15. 

 „ joft/To, Leach, Zool. Misc. v. iii. p. 141. — D'Orbignv, Moll, Rec, et 

 Foss. vol. i. p. 338. 



This cuttle-fish is commonly supposed to be the lesser 

 calamary, or rsuCig of Aristotle ; an opinion which we 

 have combated elsewhere.* It, or the next, was long ago 

 observed, however, by Rondeletius. It is a much elong- 

 ated animal, subcyllndrical anteriorly, diminishing gra- 

 dually posteriorly, and much prolonged and pointed at the 

 tail. In specimens preserved in spirits, its extremity is 

 singularly sharp and produced. The neck margin of the 

 back is prolonged into a sort of obtuse lobe. The fins are 

 widely apart above, long, somewhat rounded, broad ante- 

 riorly, tapering and converging behind, and becoming de- 

 current on the tail. In consequence of their outline, their 



* Travels in Lyiia, vol. ii. 



