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SEPIA LEFEBREI, d’ Orbigny. 
Sepia lefebret, d’Orbigny, in Férussac & dOrbieny, 1835, p. 282, pl. 24. figs. 1-6, 1839; 
d Orbigny, 1845, p. 288, pl. 13. figs. 5, 6. 
Locality.—Suez mud-flats, 2 to 3 fathoms ; one specimen, ¢ [H. 1097]. 
- Previous record.—Koseir, Red Sea. 
.. The Body is hemielliptical in outline, narrow, broadest anteriorly, bluntly 
pointed behind. The jins are narrow, only about one-eighth the breadth of 
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Sepia lefebret. 
Ventral view of the specimen, ‘The left ventral hectocotylised arm. 
x 3. 
enlarged about 4/3. 
the body ; they extend to the mantle-margin in front and to within about 
1 mm. of each other posteriorly. The mantle-margin is slightly pointed over 
the head dorsally, and only very little emarginate below. The mantle connectwe 
is of the form usual in the genus. The siphon is convexly conical and extends 
just up to the space between the arms. 
