14 AMERICAN MARINE CONCIIOLOGY. 



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. punctata, De Kay. Figs. 10, 11. 



Moll., New York, 3, t. 1, f. 1. 1843. 



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 L. Pealiiof 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.) 



Keic York; Connecticut. 



3. L. Pealii, Lesueur. Fig. 12. 



Joum. Philad. Acad., ii. 92, t. 8, f. 1, 2. 1821. 



Body elongate, subcorneal, 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 SEPIOIA, 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. 



Cephal. Acet., 233, t. 4, f. 1-12. 1839. 

 Sepiola vulgaris, Gervais & Van Benedcn, Bull. Acad. Bruxclles, iv. No. 7. 



1849. 

 Sepiola oceanica, Orb. Moll. Viv. et Foss, t. 10, f. 13. 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. 



