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* Shell very broad, permute. Side very convex; upper Part slender. 



1. LOLIGO BREVIS. 



Body cylindrical, obtuse posteriorly. Pinna? short, transversely 

 oval. Shell dilated, oblong, pennate, central-keeled, narrow in 

 front. 



Loligo brevis Blainv. Journ. de Phys. 1823, Diet, des Sc. Nat. 



xxvii. 145.; Feruss. TfOrb. Tab. des Ceph. 64. n. 10., Ceph. 



Acet. t. 15—24. f. 14—19. rings; UOrb. Voy. Am. Merid. 



Moll. 62., Paleont. univ. t. 11. f. 1., Paleont. etrang. t. 9. f. 1., 



Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 345. t. 19. f. 1. shell. 

 Loligo brevipinna LeSueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Hist. Philad. iii. 



282. 1824; Feruss. D'Orb. Tab. des Ceph. 64. n. 10., Cephal. 



Acet. t. 13. f. 4 — 6. from LeSueur, Bullet. Univ. Sc. Nat. iii. 



92. 



Hab. Brazil. Bio Janeiro. 



2. Loligo Hardwickei. 



Body oblong, rounded behind. Fins nearly two thirds the length 

 of the body, rounded on the sides. Second pair of sessile arms 

 rather the largest. Tentacular arms with numerous small cups, 

 with smaller ones in four rows at the tip. Shell lanceolate, pen- 

 nate, very broad, with a narrow central ridge ; the anterior ex- 

 tremity narrow, about one fourth the entire length. 



Loligo Hardwickei Gray, Brit. Mus. 1836. 



Hab. Indian Ocean. 



a. India. In spirits. Presented by General Hardwicke. 



b. Shell of a. dry. 



c. India. In spirits. Small. Presented by General Hard- 



wicke. 

 Like L. brevis, but fins longer ; differs from L. Duvaucelli, in the 

 fins being longer, and the shell broader, with a narrow stem. 



** Shell pennate, lanceolate. Sides convex ; upper Part moderate. 



3. Loligo magna. 



Body oblong, subcylindrical, acuminated behind. Fins semirhom- 

 boidal, nearly two thirds the length of the sides. Sessile arms 

 conico-subulate, with numerous rather large cups, and smaller 

 ones at the end ; cups oblique ; rings with an eccentric open- 

 ing, with eleven or thirteen elongate blunt teeth on the broad 

 side, the rest smooth. Tentacular arms very long. Shell lan- 

 ceolate, pennate, translucid ; of the males elongate, acute ; of 

 the females broader and rather blunt. 



