K.NopLoTKl THIS. 

 ENOPLOTEUTHIS, D'Oi-i.i-nv. 



A fo-sil of tin- Lithographic stone of the I'pper Oxford, from 

 Kiehstadt. 15a va ria. is referred lo this genus ; the other species 

 of which are recent. 



!<: . SMITIIII. Leach. IM. 75, figs. :!1 1 -315. 



Head with numerous lines of small tubercles, one -cries ex- 

 tending up each side of the linek of the arms; body smooth 

 above, with seven longit udinal lines of small rounded granules 

 beneath, the lateral lines irregular: sessile arms square, the 

 dorsal pair slightly margined on the <mter e<lo'r ; second pair 

 with a broad. nienil>ranous cdu-e ; hooks about sixty; tentacles 

 with lower uTonp of ten small cups, hall' open, rest closed, and 

 ten hooks in two alternating lines. Shell lanceolate, rather 

 broad, outer edire regularly arched. Total length. 8 inches. 



W. Africa. 

 I-]. UNGUICULATA, Molina. 



This is only known throiigli a poriion of an immense sessile 

 arm. preserved in the museum of 1 he College of Surgeons, at 

 London. The animal is supposed to have been six feet in 

 length. The cephalic portion, together with parts of the arms 

 of a specimen of great si/e. referred doubtfully to the same 

 species, have been described and figured by Hailing, in Mem. 



Amsterdam A end., ix. 



South Pacific Ocean. 



I-]. M.\K(,. \urnrKKA. Kiippell. IM. T-'. tigs. :;ir>. :>1T. 



T>od\ elongate; I'm- rhombic, not quite half the length of the 

 body, acute on the sides ; e\es with live round t ubercles on the 

 ventral side; sessile arms rounded behind, not tinned, tin- third 

 and fourth p:iirs much thicker; tentacle- srareely clubbed, subu- 

 late and unarmed at tip. with a small round group of four or 

 live cups at the ha-e. and three or four small hooks in the 

 middle. Shell broad, lanceolate, thin. Iran-parent. 



Length. -2'7~} inches, without t he tentacles. 



Sicily. 



hMinguished by its jointe<l liody extending back of the lius. 

 and b\ the sessile arms having two rows of cups and one of 

 hook-. Two specimens only known. 



