OMMATOSTREPHES. 129 



Faroe I. (Landt^ as Sepia loligo, and Steenstrup); Me- 

 diterranean (Verany); Naples and Sicily (Philippi). 



Feeds occasionally on seaweeds^ especially Alaria es- 

 culent a. " Ink of a blackish -brown colour or dark 

 olive-green^'' (Johnston). 



2. O. sagitta'tus*^ Lamarck. 



Loligo sagiitata, Lam. Mem. Soc. H. N. p. 13. Ommastrephes sagittatus, 

 R & H. iv. p. 231, pi. ERR. f. 1. 



Body pinkish or fleshcolour, covered all over with nume- 

 rous red and brown spots, all of them smaU and some minute : 

 fins resembling a broad arrow-head, from | to nearly | the 

 length of the mantle : tentacles nearly two inches longer than 

 the mantle ; their stalks are cylindrical, quite smooth, and free 

 from suckers ; the clubs are narrow, and represent about \ 

 of the total length ; the largest suckers are in the middle, and 

 the smallest at each end of the club : arms having the suckers 

 arranged alternately in two rows, one on each side, the middle 

 being smooth ; those on the outer and inner extremities are 

 very minute and crowded ; the two lateral pairs of arms are 

 the longest, as in 0. todarus ; aU the arms are crested on the 

 back and webbed at the base ; there are no suckers near the 

 mouth. L. 14. B. 4. 



Shell resembling a very long oar with a broad handle, the 

 blade occupying not much more than -1- of the whole length : 

 sculpture, a microscopic granulation in some parts ; besides the 

 midrib, which extends all the way, the haft has from 2 to 4 

 slighter ribs on each side, and the blade is closely but irregu- 

 larly striated lengthwise. L. 11. B. 0*4. 



Habitat : Brighton (Dowager Marchioness of Hast- 

 ings_, fide Forbes and Hanley); Folkestone (Mackie^ on 

 same authority); Guernsey (Gallienne and Cooper); 

 Falmouth (Cocks) ; Polperro (Laughrin). L^Orient 

 (Gand, ^(^e Tasle) ; Arcachon (Lafont); Mediterranean^ 

 from Nice to Sicily (Risso, Philippi, and others) ; 

 Venice (Nardo). 



* Provided with arrows. 



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