192 SKIMA. 



ovate, compressed. acuminated anteriorU . rounded posteriorly, 

 with a long curved beak ; the ventral stria' extending to half the 

 length. Length, 2.~> inche-. 



Atlantic and Algerian C<i*t* tf Africa; Ten-riffe; Cape. 



In its proportions, both of animal and shell, this specie- i> 

 very similar to the preceding, but dillers in the dentition of the 

 rings of the suckers, and in the number of tentacular ro 



8. i. ATI MAN' s. Uuoy and (iaim. PI. 88, tigs. 400. 401. 



Body ovate, smooth, truncated in front, pointed behind : lins 

 narrow, blue-edged; arms slender, quadrangular, elongate, un- 

 equal, order of length 4, :', 2, 1, the rings of the cups with very 

 line. close teeth ; tentacles dilated, strongly palmated, having five 

 rows of cups, of which six or eight ai'e very large, with their 

 horny rings plaited on the edge. Shell oblong, rounded ante- 

 riorly, obtuse posteriorly, longly and acutely beaked. 



Length, 16 inches. 



Indian Ocean ; New Guinea ; Celebes. 



S. TI BEBOULATA, Lam. PI. SS. tigs. \(Y.\. 404 ; pi. S.. ligs. 402. 4ii.~i. 

 liody ovate, tuberculated. the tubercles very unequal, divided 

 into lobes : tins narrow: head tuberculated on the hack, sides. 

 and round the eyes, smooth be-low: arms short, thick, unequal, 

 length 4. -\. -2. 1. the extremities of the arms with eight row- ol 

 very small siiekers. rest with four rows; tentacles very long, 

 thickly clubbed, with live rows of nips, four cups very much 



Larger, with oblique, entire rings. Shell much depressed. o\ 



equally rounded at each end ; above smooth, and cartilaginous 

 on the sides and ends ; beneath very Concave. Length, 20 inches. 



Cape of Good Hope. 



S. VKKMH-I i, ATA. (Juoy and (iaim. PL s'.i. tigs. 406, 407. 



Body ovate. >in<><>ili, acute anteriorly: lins broad, largelv 

 ^parated behind, dotted with red; head large: anus short, 

 thick at I. rise, unequal, length I, .",. 2. 1. the nips with entire 

 rings; tentacles very l< mg. cylindrical, cluli flattened, with very 

 numeroii- cup-, .-iglit or ten larger than the rest with entire 

 rings. Shell oblong, ovate, bluntly beaked posteriorly. 



Length, 15 inches. 



Cape of Good Hope. 



