1912. 



NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 



401 



Material Examined. 



No. 

 Sp. 



2 



Locality. 

 Same, Mutsu 



5 Bay of Tokio 



Sex. 

 cf 



cf 9 



1 Bay of Tokio 



Tokio 



Okayama, Bizen 

 Kawatana, Hizen 



Collectors. 

 Jordan and 



Snyder 

 E. S. Morse 



E. S. Morse 



14 



1 



7 



Where Author's 

 deposited. Register. 



L.S.J.U., 369 

 Cat. 2,033 

 Yale Univ. 367 



Mus., 

 Cat. 9,640 

 S.S.B., 

 coll., 2,404 

 L.S.J.U., 

 Cat. 2,034 



368 

 370 

 393 

 371 



... cT 9 Jordan and 



Snyder 

 c 71 AlanOwston L.S.J.U., 



Cat. 2,086 



... cf 9 Jordan and L.S.J.U., 

 Snyder Cat. 2,035 



Loligo aspera Ortmann, 1888. 



Loligo aspera Ortmann, 1888, p. 661, pi. 25, figs. 3a-3d. 

 This species is so far known only from Kochi, Toza, the type 

 locality, and I am not aware that it has been observed since its 

 original description by Ortmann. 



Genus SEPIOTEUTHIS Blainville, 1825. 

 [Sepioteuthis sinensis d'Orbigny, 1839.] 



Sepioteuthis sinensis d'Orbigny, in d'Orbigny and Ferussac, 1839, p. 304. 

 Sepioteuthis sinensis d'Orbigny, 1845, p. 329. 

 Sepioteuthis sinensis Tryon, 1879, p. 154. 



D'Orbigny applied this name to a squid said to be eaten by the 

 Japanese. No specific characters have been given. 



Sepioteuthis lessoniana FSrussac, 1826. PI. VI, figs. 3, 5. 



Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Ferussac in d'Orbigny, 1826, p. 155. 



Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Lesson, 1830, p. 241, pi. 11. 



Sepioteuthis Lessoniana d'Orbigny and Ferussac, 1839, p. 302; Sepiot., pi. 1; 



pi. 6, figs. 9-14 (fide Hoyle). 

 Sepioteuthis Lessoniana d'Orbigny, 1845, p. 326. 

 Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Gray, 1849, p. 80. 



Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Keferstein, 1866, p. 1402, pi. 122, fig. 7. 

 Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Tryon, 1879, p. 152, pi. 62, fig. 212; pi. 64, fig. 213. 

 Sepioteuthis lessoniana Appellof, 1886, p. 31. 

 Sepioteuthis lessoniana Hoyle, 1886, pp. 27, 151, etc. 

 Sepioteuthis lessoniana Ortmann, 1888, pp. 657, 665. 

 Sepioteuthis lessoniana Ortmann, 1891, p. 676. 

 Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Jouhin, 1894, p. 39. 

 Sepioteuthis Lessoniana Joubin, 1898, p. 26. 

 Sepioteuthis lessoniana Hoyle, 1909, p. 265. 

 Sepioteuthis lessoniana Wulker, 1910, pp. 11, 28, 36, etc., pi. 3, fig. 28; pi. 



4, figs. 29, 31. 



Body elongate, massive, dorso-ventrally compressed; contour elon- 

 gate ovoid, tapering rapidly to a blunt point behind. Mantle very 



