132 TEUTHIDiE. 



2. L. me'dia"^, Linne. 



Sepia media, Linn. S. N. p. 1095. L. media, F. & H. iv. p. 228, pi. QQQ. 

 f. 1. 



Body tapering below to a point, silveiy-grej, almost trans- 

 parent, with a tint of fleshcolour, and closely speckled with 

 purplish-brown : fins rather narrow, inclined to a semicircular 

 shape, placed at a distance varying between ^ and ^ from 

 the tail or extremity : tentacles slender, sometimes longer than 

 the rest of the body, but usually | of its length ; club lan- 

 ceolate, occupying about ^ of each tentacle ; suckers longest 

 in the middle, minute and crowded at the top : head short : 

 eyes prominent : arms unequal in size, the ventral or lowest 

 pair being the largest ; suckers irregularly biserial. L. (exc. 

 tent.) 4-5. E. (exc. fins) O'To. 



Shell resembling a willow-leaf; midrib strong. L. 3*25. 

 B. 0-275. 



Habitat : English, Bristol, St. George's, and North 

 Channels, as well as the German Ocean ; Clyde district 

 (Smith and Norman) ; Peterhead (Peach). Norway to 

 Corunna; Mediterranean and Adriatic. 



Usually considered the revdh of Aristotle. It is the 

 L. parva of Rondelet and Leach, and L. subulata of 

 Lamarck. 



The squid described and figured by Forbes and Han- 

 ley (iv. p. 230, pi. QQQ. f. 2), from the Irish coasts, as 

 L. Marmor(B of Verany appears to be the female of L. 

 media. The body is said to be stouter, and the fins to 

 meet at the extremity of the mantle. Verany doubt- 

 fully refers this so-called species to L. media and L. 

 subulata. 



Dr. Rose, in the ^Zoologist' for 1853 (p. 3864), has 

 recorded the occurrence of Onychoteuthis Bariksii at 

 Banfi". This genus has the tentacular club armed with 

 hook-like cups, besides suckers at their base. The 



* Intermediate in size, viz. between L. vulgaris and Sepiola Bondekti. 



