60 CATALOGUE OP CEPHALOPODA. 



Loligo soqulpoda Riippell, Giorn. del Gabin. di Messina, xxvi. 

 1844. 



Hab. Sicily. 



a. Sicily, Messina. In spirits. From Dr. E. Rtippell's 

 Collection. 



ftf Tentacular Arms ivith two Scries of small Cups at the Top. 



3. Ommastrephes todarus. 



Body short, thick, nearly cylindrical, spotted with red. Fins half 

 the length of the body, broad, together rhoniboidal. Sessile 

 arms unequal ; rings of cups with seven distant very oblique 

 cutting teeth on the higher side. Tentacular arms robust, with 

 cups nearly to the base ; scarcely clubbed ; cups at the base in two 

 series, in the middle in four series, middle ones larger, with the 

 rings with twenty acute teeth all round ; at the top in two series 

 of minute cups. 



Sepia loligo Linn. Syst. Nat. edit. xii. 1095. n. 4. 1767; Gmel. 



Syst. Nat. edit. 13. 3150. n. 4. ; Shaio, Nat. Miscell. t. 363. 

 Loligo sagittata var. a. Lamck. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, 13. 



1799 ; Hist. An. s. Vert. vii. 663. ; Feruss. Diet. Class, iii. 67. 



n. 2.; Carus, Icon. Sep. Nov. Acet. Phys. Med. xii. 318. t. 30.; 



Payraudeau, Cat. desc. Moll. Corse, n. 352. 

 Calmar fleche Montfort, Buff, de Sonnin. Moll. ii. 5G. 1805. 

 Calinar du Bresil Montfort, Buff, de Sonnin. Moll. ii. 56. 1805. 

 Loligo todarus Bafinesque, Prcc. Decouv. Som. 1814; Feruss. 



Ceph. Acet. Loligo, t. 1. 

 Loligo Brasiliensis Feruss. Diet. Class, iii. 67. n. 3. 1823. 

 Loligo maxima Blainv. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxvii. 140. 1823, Journ. de 



Phys. 1823, 129. 

 Ommastrephes todarus D'Orb. Ceph. Acet. Ommastrephes, t. 2. 



f. 4—10. 1839, Paleont. univ. t. 22. f. 3. 11. t. 23. f. 5, 6., 



Paleont. etrang. t. 19. f. 3—11. t. 20. f. 5, 6 , Moll. Viv. et Fos. 



i. 423. t. 29. f. 3—11. t. 30. f. 5, 6. 



Hab. Mediterranean. 



** The third Pair of sessile Arms with a narrow fleshy Fin supported 

 by cross Bibs on the inner Edge of the ventral Side ; second 

 icithout Budinicnts of Points on the Edge. 



4. Ommastrephes giganteus. 



Body elongate, cylindrical superiorly, violet-coloured. Fins broad, 

 occupying half the length, nicked in front, together transverse 



