172 KNOI'LOTKITIIIS. 



Genus ENOPLOTEUTHIS, IVOrbigny. 

 



A fossil of the Lithographic stone of the Upper Oxford, from 

 Eichstadt, Bavaria, is referred l<> this genus; the ot her species 

 of which are recent. 



E . SMITHII, Leach. PI. 75, figs. 311-315. 



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

 leiiding up each side of the back of the arms; body smooth 

 above, with seven longitudinal lines of small rounded "-ninnies 

 beneath, the Intend lines irregular ; sessile arms square, the 

 dorsal pair slightly margined on the outer edge ; second pair 

 with a broad, membraiions edge ; hooks about sixty ; tentacles 

 with lower group of ten small cups, half open, rest closed, mid 

 ten hooks in two alternating lines. Shell lanceolate, rather 

 bro;id. outer edge regularly arched. Total length. 8 inches. 



W. Africa. 

 E. UNUUICULATA, Molina. 



This is only known through a portion of an immense sessile 

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

 London. The animal is supposed to have been si\ 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 Hurting, in Mem. 



Amsterdam Acad., ix. 



South Pacific Ocean. 



I']. MAiuiAKiTiFERA, Kuppell. L'l. 75. tigs. 31(5. 317. 



Body elongate; fins rhombic, not quite half the length of the 

 body, acute on the sides; eyes with live round tubercles on I In- 

 vent nil side ; sessile arms rounded behind, not finned, the third 

 and fourth pairs much thicker; tentacle's scarcely clubbed, subu- 

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

 live enps at the bnse. and three or four small hooks in the 

 middle. Shell broad, lanceolate, thin, transparent. 



Leii"1h. -2-7.') inches, without 1 he t entacles. 



Sicily. 



Distinguished by its pointed body extending back of the lins. 

 and by the sessile arms having two rows of cups and one of 

 hooks. Two specimens only known. 



