162 CRANrillA. LOL1GOPSIS. 



R. DISPAR, Riippell. PL 68, fig. 24<). 



Body ovate, rounded, rather tapering behind ; fins rounded, 

 rather behind middle of back ; sessile arras rounded externally, 

 upper ones slightly webbed together ; cups in two series, small, 

 globular, except on lateral third pair of arms, where they are 

 very large, pedunculated ; tentacles slender, tapering, the clubs 

 scarcely marked, with very minute cups. Smaller than R. 



macrosoma. 



Sicily . 



Family VI. ORANCHIID.K. 



Genus CRANCHIA, Leach. 



C. SCABRA, Leach. PL 68, figs. 250, 251. 



Body very voluminous, flask-shaped, head very small, with 

 large eyes, surface of head and body thickly beset with small 

 horny tubercles ; fins very small, united by their sides ; arms un- 

 equal, order of length 3, 2, 4, 1, with cups far apart on their 

 margins ; tentacles contractile, the cups smaller than those of the 

 sessile arms. Shell very narrow, narrowed in the middle, ex- 

 panded and acute at each end. Length, nearly 2 inches. 



Congo, Africa ; West Indies. 



Oct. Eylais, Orb. (fig. 251), is the young of this species. 



C. MACULATA, Leach. 



Ditfers from the above by the skin being smooth, beautifully 



marked with black spots. Not figured. 



Congo, Africa. 

 C. MEGALOPS, Prosch. 



The body joined to the head by a pseudo-articulation (which 



is made by him a subgeneric character. S. G. Owenia). Eyes 

 large ; arms small, order of length 3, 2, 4, 1 ; tentacles long ; 

 fins lunate. 



Genus LOLIGOPSIS, Lamarck. 

 * Smooth. Typical Loligopsis. 

 L. HYPERBOREA, Steenst. 



Body smooth, elongated ; with very narrow fins, half the 

 length of the body, forming a lanceolate figure; arras 3, 2, 1, 4, 

 in proportionate length, with large suckers ; tentacles much 



