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Distribution. Maizuru, Tango (Ortmann); Bay of Tokio (Ort- 

 mann); Enoshima, Sagami (Ortmann) ; Wakanoura, Kii (!); Kadsi- 

 yama (Ortmann); Kochi, Toza (Ortmann); Kagoshima, Satsuma 

 (Ortmann); Nagasaki, Hizen (!). 



Sepia torosa Ortmann, 1888. 



Sepia torosa Ortmann, 1888, pp. 652, 665, pi. 23, fig. 2. 

 Sepia torosa Ortmann, 1891, p. 674. 



Distribution. Bay of Tokio (type locality, Ortmann). Amboina 

 (Ortmann) . 



Sepia formosana new species. PI. IX, fig; 7. 



Body wide, stout, compressed, semi-elliptical. Fins nearly one 

 third as wide as the body, widest near the middle and becoming 

 very narrow posteriorly though nearly continuous around the 



Fig. 2. Sepia formosana [361]: a, camera outline of horny ring from third left 

 arm, much enlarged; 6, camera outline of horny ring of large tentacular 

 sucker, same scale as preceding; c, ventral aspect of gladius, natural size. 



extremity of the body. Mantle margin produced into a prominent 

 rounded angle above, but truncate or slightly emarginate below. 



Head broad, flattened. Eyes large, prominent. Funnel broad, 

 truncate at the apex, the latter barely reaching the gap between 

 the ventral arms. 



Arms subequal, somewhat over a third as long as the body; all 

 more or less compressed, the third and fourth pairs conspicuously 



