loligid-e; : leptoteuthis, beloteuthis. 85 



1. Leptoteuthis gigas. 

 Shell lanceolate, smooth, blunt in front, pointed behind. 

 Leptoteuthis gigas Meyer, Mas. Lenskcnb. i. 202. ; Bronn, Tas- 

 chenb. 1836, 56. ; D'Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 363. t. 21. 



Fos. Oxford clay, Solenhoffen. 



7. BELOTEUTHIS. 



Animal unknown. — Shell internal, horny, lanceolate, flat, acumi- 

 nated in front, enlarged and winged behind, with a central 

 convex, and two diverging lateral concave ridges in the concave 

 beneath. — Fossil. Upper Lias. 



Beloteuthis (pars) Munster, Beitr. Petref. vi. t. 5. f. 1. 1843; 

 jyOrh. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 364. 1845, Paleont. univ. t. 16. 1845. 

 Sepiolites sp. Munster, 1843. 

 Teuthopsis sp. ? Bronn, Ges. der Nat. iii. 5-11. 



1. Beloteuthis subcostata. 



Shell compressed, lanceolate, attenuated in front, substriated 

 above, and rather costated beneath. 



Beloteuthis subcostata Munster, Beitr. Petref. 61. t. 5. f. 2. t. 6. 

 f. 2. ; UOrb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 363., Paleont. univ. t. 16., Pa- 

 leont. Strang, t. 13. 



B. substriata Munster, 1. c. 62. t. 5. f. 3. t. 6. f. 5. 



B. acuta Munster, 1. c. 63. t. 6. f. 4. 



B. venusta Munster, 1. c. 64. t. 14. f. 2. 



B. ampullaris (pars) Munster, 1. c. t. 5. f. 1. not t. 6. f. 1. 



Sepialites substriatus Munster, 1. c. 76. t. 6. f. 6. ? 



Fos. Upper Lias, Wurtemburg. 



8. BELEMNOSEPIA. 



Animal unknown. — Shell internal, horny, thin, broad; central 

 part gradually increasing in breadth to the more or less pro- 

 duced broad front part, and with a rounded expansion on 

 each side behind ; the lines of growth of the central part trans- 

 verse, and of the lateral wing arched and concentric ; the hinder 

 part convex above and concave beneath. — Fossil. Upper 

 Lias and Oxford Clay. 



Belemnosepia Agassiz, Lehrb. 1835, 627. 1836, 36. in Buckland, 

 Geol. i. 374. note, 1836, ed. 2. 414. 1839 ; Desh. in Lamch. Hist. 



