SEPIA. 195 



* * * * Tentacular arms finned, with numerous, small, equal-sized cupn, in 



eight or ten rows. 

 f Shell very narrow behind. 



S. ACULEATA. Hasselt. PI. 90. fig". 415 ; pi. 91. figs. 416. 417. 



Body ovate, rounded, smooth, rather pointed behind ; fins 

 broad, thick, commencing- rather behind the front edge ; arms 

 elongate, unequal, order of length 4. 8. '2. 1, the cups globular, 

 with rings minutely toothed all around ; tentacular clubs with 

 very small cups in ten or twelve rows, with distant, acute teeth 

 on the rings. Shell ovate, oblong, tubercularly wrinkled, de- 

 pressed, rounded at the ends ; with a long, straight, acute beak, 

 convex beneMth in front and concave behind. Length, 13 inches. 



Indian Ocean; Java. 



S. ELONGATA. Fer. and Orb. PI. 91. figs. 418, 419. 



Animal unknown. Shell very elongated, narrow, pointed in 

 front, enlarged behind, and provided with a wing-like expansion 

 and a long acute beak ; rugose above, with a medial longitudinal 



rib; swollen, beneath, gibbous in the middle. 



Red Sea. 



S. SINOPK. Gray. PI. 1)4. fig. 448. 



Animal unknown. Shell elongate, sublanceolate ; back smooth, 

 slightly concentrically wrinkled, with a deep groove along each 

 side of the middle ; rather tapering at the upper part : apex im- 

 perfect . 



China. 



Described from an imperfect cuttle-bone in Brit. Mus., with 

 reference (doubtfully) to S. Australia, Quoy (not of Orb.) 

 which 1 figure. 



| f Shell oblong, posterior end expanded, produced, cartilaginous, not beaked, 

 convex beneath. SEPIELLA. 



S. OBNATA. Hang. PI. 91. fig. 420 ; pi. 92. figs. 421. 422. 



Body ovate, elongated, very smooth, brown, spotted with white ; 

 fins very broad, broader behind ; ears with broad, thick edges ; 

 arms short, thick, unequal, length 4, 3, 1, 2, the rings of the cups 

 oblique, smooth on the narrow, and with short, unequal teeth on 

 the broad edge ; tentacles lanceolate, with very small, close cups 

 f equal size in eight or ten lines, with toothed rings. Shell 



