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ONYCHIA. Generally like Onychoteuthis j tentacles thin, clubs with two 

 rows of hooks, two rows of suckers, and a circle of suckers at the base 

 Cor supporting the tentacles together. Gladius leather-like. 



ENOPLOTEUTHIS. Body long, cylindrical, with triangular fins either at 

 the end or all along both sides (sect. Ancestrocheirus] ; arms with two 

 rows of hooks, and with sometimes (sect. Abralia] suckers at their 

 ends ; tentacles with hooks only ; siphon connected with the head by 

 bands ; the fourth right or left arm hectocotylized. Shell feather-like 

 or blade-shaped. 



VERANYA. Body cylindrical, thin, rounded behind, with fins along 

 nearly the whole length ; arms with two rows of small hooks ; tentacles 

 thin, shorter than the sessile arms, with small suckers ; siphon con- 

 nected by bands. Shell feather-like. Too close to Enoploteuthis. 



PLESIOTEDTHIS. ( Fossil only. ) Body rather long, attenuated behind ; arms 

 with hooks. - Shell small, lancet-formed, with a central and two side 

 ridges, and an arrow-shaped point. 



CEL/ENO. (Fossil only. ) Body oval ; arms with hooks and suckers. Shell 

 a rounded blade, with winged projections on either side of the pen ; 

 nucleus central. 



DOSIDICUS. Body long ; arms with large suckers on the low r er half, and 

 many small ones on the upper, thinner half ; clubs of the tentacles with 



four or five hooks. Shell with a large, nearly solid end-cone. 

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Family X. OMMASTREPHID.E. 



OMMASTREPHES. Body long, cylindrical ; arms short, with two rows of 

 suckers ; tentacles short, not retractile, the clubs with four rows of 

 suckers ; siphon valvecl, fastened to the head by bands. Shell small, 

 lancet-form, with a hollow eud-conus. 



Family XI. SEPIIDJE. 



SEPIA. General characters those of the family ; under the eyes a lid-like 

 fold, over them lachrymal openings ; six aqueous pores in the buccal 

 membrane ; arms short ; tentacles long ; suckers long-pedunculated ; 

 siphon with very large valve . Fourth left arm hectocotylized to its base. 



HEMISEPIUS. Differs from Sepia by the sessile arms having only two 

 rows of suckers ; the ventral surface of the mantle with aqueous pores 

 situated in little nipples, and connected together by a longitudinal 

 groove. The very rudimentary calcareous partitions of the inner side 

 of the cuttle-bone only cover a portion of the excessively thin plate. 



