If) 2 SEPIOTEUTHIS. 



S. MAURITIANA, Quoy and Gaim. PI. 61, figs. 208, 209 ; pi. 62, 



fig. 206 ; pi. 64, fig. 20t, 210. 



Body cylindrical, acuminated ; fins narrow, widest at two- 

 thirds the length of the body ; sessile arms unequal, order of 

 length 3, 4, 2, 1 ; the cups oblique, the rings with a number of 

 acute, hooked, curved teeth ; tentacles slender ; the cups rather 

 oblique, with acute, distant, hooked teeth. Length, 17 inches. 



Mauritius. 

 S. MADAGASCARIENSIS, Gray. 



Body oblong, rounded behind ; fins broad, rounded ; cups of 

 tentacular arms unequal, four-rowed ; labial membrane with a 

 single cup at the tip of each angle. -Shell lanceolate, rather 

 broad, upper part rather broad, blackish. 



Not figured ; the description is sufficiently indefinite. 



Madagascar. 

 S. ARCTIPINNIS, Gould. PI. 62, fig. 211. 



Body elongate, ovate-lanceolate ; fins with rounded outlines, 

 broadest behind the middle ; head rather narrow ; sessile arms 

 short, stout, order of length 2, 4, 3, 1 ; tentacles long as the 

 body. Color brownish-purple with red dots. 



Length of body, 6 inches; total length, 16 inches. 



Sandwich Islands. 



Very closely allied to S. Mauritiana, but differs in the formula 

 of the arms ; it is also very close to the next species, but besides 

 the formula, there is a difference in the shell, which has thickened 

 margins. 



f f Shell lanceolate, the margins of the wings not thickened. 



S. LESSONIANA, Fer. and Orb. PI. 62, fig. 212 ; pi. 64, 213. 



Body elongated, violet-spotted ; fins dilated posteriorly ; head 

 broad, ear crests thick, broad ; sessile arms, order of length 3, 



4, 2, 1, their cups oblique with distant, acute teeth ; tentacles 

 bluntly clubbed, the cups large, very oblique, and armed with 

 acute, distant, curved teeth. Length, nearly 3 feet. 



New Guinea; New Zealand; Java; Malabar. 



5. LOLIGINIFORMIS, Leuckart. PI. 62, fig. 214; pi. 64, fig. 215. 

 Distinguished by its fins being wider posteriorly. S. Hempri- 



<-hii, Ehrenburg, from the same locality (not figured), has a simi- 



