90 CATALOGUE OF CEPHALOPODA. 



Tentacular arms long, slender. — Body, bead, and arms pale 

 rose-coloured, red-dotted. 



Sepiola subulata Eijd. MS.; Gervais et Van Beneden, Bull, de F 

 Acad. Roy. de Bruxelles, v. n. 7. 1838 (Xote sur le genre 

 Sepiola.) 



Rossia subulata D'Orb. Sf Per. Cephal. Acet. 249. n. 3. 1839, Moll. 

 Viv. et Fos. i. 259. 



Hab. Indian Ocean, Manilla. 



** Cups of lateral three Pairs of Arms very large, peduncled, 

 distant ; Cups of other arms small, crowded, equal. Tenta- 

 cular arms tapering. — Heteroteutbis. 



4. Rossia dispar. 



Body ovate, rounded, and ratber tapering bebind. Fins roundisb, 

 ratber bebind tbe middle of tbe back. Sessile arms rounded 

 externally ; four upper pairs slightly webbed together, third and 

 fourth slightly webbed on tbe side, ventral pan* separate below ; 

 cups small, globular; thb-d pair finned, with a very few large 

 globular cups. Tentacular arms slender ; club scarcely marked, 

 compressed externally, with very minute cups placed in several 

 series. 



Rossia dispar Riippell, MS. Brit. Mus. 



Sepiola dispar Riippell, in Giorn. del Gabin. di Messina, xxvi. 



1845. 

 Hab. Sicily. 



a, b. Sicily. In spirits. From Edward Riippell, M. D. 



*** Cups peduncled. 



5. Rossia ? Owenii. 



Cups large, distinct, on long peduncles, arranged in three rows, 

 those of the centre row not half the size of the side ones ; on the 

 first pair of arms more numerous, more equal in size, and 

 smaller, than on the other arms. 



Rossia Owenii Ball, Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. 1843; Thompson's 

 Report of Brit. Assoc. 1843, p. 248. ; UOrb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. 

 i. 259. n. 4. 



Hab. Ireland, Dublin Bay. Ball, 1839. 



6. Rossia ? Jacobi. 



Larger than R. Owenii ; arms shorter ; cup smaller. Mouth 



