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28. Sepia elliptica Hoy le 1885. 



Local name : Hari-ika (Tokyo). 



PL XL, figs, il, 12. 



Sepia elliptica, Hoyle 1885a, p. 189 (Arafura Sea, South of 

 Papua). — Hoyle 1885b, p. 293. — Hoyle 1886, p. 131, pi. xix, 

 figs. 14-24. — Wülker 1910, p. 11 (Misaki). — Berry 1912a, 

 p. 419. 



Sepia hoylei, Ortmann 1888, p. 650, pi. xxii, fig. 5 ; pi. xxiii, fig. 

 I (Maizuru ; Tokyo Bay ; Kadsiyama, Awa ; Enoshima, 

 Sagami; Kochi, Tosa; Kagoshima). — Berry 1912a, p. 419 

 (Nagasaki ; Wakanoura). 



List of specimens examined. 



Specimens 



Locality 



Date 



Where preserved 



I* 



Akune, Satsuma 



April 19, 1896 



Sci. Coll. 



7 



Tòkyo market 





do 



3£. 3-? 



Tòkyo Bay 





Imp. Mus. 



Ventral sculpture of the shell is subject to considerable individual 

 variations, which are however connected together by intermediate 

 gradations, indicating, as Wülker has recently pointed out, that S. 

 hoylei and 5. elliptica should be taken for synonyms. Plate I, figs. 

 II and 12 show two extreme cases of the variation among the speci- 

 mens now before me. 



29. Sepia hercules Pilsbry 1894. 



Sepia hercules, Pilsbry 1894, p. 144 (Japan). — Pilsbry 1895, p. 2 r 

 pi. i, figs. I, 2 (Loocho Island). — Berry 1912a, p. 419. 



