!.")! TKI TIloI'SIS. I.KI'TOTKI THIS. HKI.KM NnSKl'1 A . 



lanceolate, very broad and thin : the \vings broadest in the 

 middle, strongly thickened on the niaririns towards the extremity. 

 The thickening of the shell margin is not well represented in the 



original figure. Length, about 15 inche-. 



Java. 

 In form very like S. Auxtrtili*. 



* * * Species of which the buccal membranes are undescribed. 



S. HILINEATA, Quoy and Gaim. I'l. (',:;, fig. 221, 



Body elongated, rather narrow ; lins rhomboidal, very wide in 

 the middle, the angle rounded ; outline of body marked upon its 



dm^al surface by a blue line. 



Australia. 



S. MAJOR, Gray. PL G4, fig. 222. 



IJody sul.eylindrical, attenuated posterior^; lateral pinnae 

 produced to the whole length of the body, extended in the 

 middle. Length of body, 27 inches; of head, 6 inches. 



Gape of Good Hope. 



This looks very like S. bilineata, and also like Thysanoteuthis 

 /t/nnnfuifi : tin- very poor figure shows that the specimen is 

 mutilated. 



S. SIXI:NSI>. Orb. 



So named from ti ceplialopod referred to in Encyc. Japoiiaisc. 

 It is eaten l.i'oilcd. l.y the natives. No specific cha raet el's given. 



Japan. 

 TEUTHOPSIS, Di'.-li.n-ri'liniiij.s. 



A fi-w species known, from the lias of France and \Ynr- 

 fcemburg. 



T. I'.i \KI.I.II. Deal. IM. ;:>. ftgs. 223, 22 t. 



LEPTOTEUTHIS, Meyer. 



< )nly a siniih- jie-'n-s known. 

 I.. QJGAfl Meyer. PL 65, fig. 225. < )\('ord ela y, tf 



is BELEMNOSEPIA, 



'I'lie ink-bug, mantle and ba^-s of the arm>. as well as the 

 horny shells of this animal, are preserved. Some of the ink- 

 baga are nearly a foot in length, and are invested with a brilliant. 



