SEPIADiE : SEPIA. 99 



§ Sessile Arms tvith small equal Cups placed in four regular alter- 

 nating Lines. 



* Tentacular Arms with unequal- sized Cups placed in Jive or six 



Lines. 

 1. Sepia officinalis. 



Body ovate, depressed, smooth. Head with two elongated, and some 

 smaller beards above. Sessile arms short, strong, unequal ; order 

 of length, 4, 3, 2, 1 ; ring of cups smooth, entire. Tentacular 

 arms much enlarged, with six alternating lines of cups, the five 

 central cups much larger ; rings of the larger cups smooth, of 

 the smaller ones toothed. Shell ovate, compressed, wrinkled 

 above, semi-cartilaginous on the edge and behind, rounded pos- 

 teriorly ; when young the apical beak is conical, prominent, and 

 the upper part of the last internal plate occupied ; half the beak 

 becomes immersed in the cartilages, and the plate is diminished 

 to one third the length of the cavity in the adult. — Back purple, 

 with darker cross bands, forked, and with small white spots on 

 the side. 



Sepia officinalis Linn. Fauna Suecica, n. 2106., Syst. Nat. edit. 12. 

 1095. n. 2. ; Gmel. Syst. Nat. edit. 13. 3149. n. 2. ; Scopoli, Hist. 

 Nat. Obs. Zool. 127 ; Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. 55.; Gronovius, 

 Zoophyl. 244. n. 1021.; Brug. Encyc. Meth. t. 76. f. 56.; 

 Wulfen, Nov. Act. Pliys. Med. Berlin, viii. 379. ; Lamarck, 

 Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, 4., Syst. des Anim. s. Vert. 59., 

 Hist. An. s. Vert. vii. 668. ; Bosc, Hist. Nat. des Vers, i. 45. n. 

 1. ; Leach, Nat. Miscell. iii. 138.; Carus, Icon. Sep. Nov. Act. 

 Nat. Cur. xii. 317. t. 28. ; Martens, Reise nach Venedig, ii. 436. ; 

 Payrad. Cat. Moll, de Corse, 173. n. 54.; Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. 

 Merid. iv. 3. n. 10.; Blainv. Diet. Sc. Nat. xlviii. 284., Faune 

 Franc. 18.; Deshayes, Enc.Meth. Vers, iii. 944. n. 1.; Bouchard, 

 Cat. Moll. Mar. 72. n. 125.; Potiez et Mich. Gal. Moll, de 

 Douai, i. 8. n. 1. ; Philippi, Enum. Moll. Sic. 241. n. 1.; D'Orb. 

 Moll, des Conor. 20. n. 4., Cephal. Acet. 260. n. 1., Seiches, t. 

 1, 2, 3. f. 1—3. t. 17. f. 12., Paleont. univ. t. 3. f. 1—5. t. 4. f. 

 13—16., Paleont. etrang. t. 3. f. 1—5. t. 4. f. 13—16. ; Cantraine, 

 Malac. Nouv. Mem. de Brux. xiii. 14. n. 1. ; UOi-bigny, Moll. 

 Viv. et Fos. i. 272. t. 12. f. 1—5. t. 13. f. 13—16. 



Seiche commune Montfort, Buff, de Sonnin. Moll. i. 171. 



Sepia rugosa Boivdiclis Elements of Conchology, t. 1. f. 1. 



Sepia Schneider, Sammlung Verm. 108. 



Hab. Atlantic Ocean, Coasts of Europe and Africa, Mediter- 

 ranean. 

 a. Torbay, Devonshire, England. In spirits. Presented by 

 J. R. Griffith, Esq. 



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