loligopsid^: : LOLIGOPSIS. 41 



tacular arms with very numerous microscopic cups. Shell very 

 slender. 



Loligopsis vermicolaris R'uppell, Giorn. del Gabinetto di Messina, 

 xxvi. 1844-5. 



Hab. Sicily. 



** Sides with Rows of acute Tubercles. Shell solid at Tip. — 

 Leachia LeSueur, Perotis Esch. 



5. Loligopsis cyclura. 



Body elongate, rather fusiform, attenuated behind, whitish, 

 spotted with red ; sides with a longitudinal row of eleven 

 acute four-pointed tubercles, and many smaller ones. Fins 

 semicircular, broad, together subrhomboidal. Sessile arms 

 large, conical, very contractile, unequal ; proportionate length, 

 3, 2, 4, 1. Cups nearly spherical; rings oblique. Shell elongate, 

 thin, very narrow anteriorly, lanceolate, rather dilated behind ; 

 tip very sharp, attenuated, solid. 



Leachia cyclura LeSueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Inst. Soc. Philad. ii. 

 90. t. 6. 1821. 



Loligopsis cyclura Feruss. Diet. Class, ii. 68. pi. f. 3. 1823; DOrb. 

 Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 370. t. 23. f. 4. 



Loligo Leachii Blainv. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxvi. 135., Journ. de Phys. 

 1823, p. 124. 



Loligopsis Leachii Feruss. UOrb. Tab. de Ceph. 57. 1825. 



Loligopsis guttata Grant, Trails. Zool. Soc. Loud. i. 21. t. 2. 1833 ; 

 D'Orb. Ceph. Acet. Loligops. t. 1. f. 1. t. 3. t. 4. f. 9—16. 



Perothis pellueida Eschscholtz, MS. 1827. 



Perothis Escholtzii Rathke, Mem. de V Acad, des Sc. de St. Petersb. 

 par divers savans, ii. 149. 1835. 149. t. 1. f. 1 — 15. 



Hab. Indian Ocean. 



*** Doubtful Species. 



6. Loligopsis ? Peronii. 



Body fleshy, oblong ; the mantle subacute at the base, and finned 



interiorly. Mouth terminal, surrounded with eight sessile and 



equal arms. 

 Loligopsis Peronii Lamck. Cours de Zool. 123. 1812, An. s. Vert. 



vii. 659.; Ferussac, Diet. Class, ii. 68.; Feruss. et UOrb. Tub. 



Ceph. 57. ; D'Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 372. 

 Sepia sepiola Peronii LeSueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. ii. 



100. 1821. 

 Sepiola minima LeSueur, 1. c. 100. 1821. 



