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MADOKA SASAKI : 



Specimens 



Mantle-length 



Locality 



Date 



Where preserved 





IIO mm. 



Tomo, Bingo 



— 



Fish. Bur. 







Haneda, Musaslii 





Imp. Mus. 

 Tòkyo 



I* 





Tosa 





do 



io£ 



124 mm., 112 mm. 



Himi, Etchû 



May 9, 1913 



Agr. Coll. 



war- ® 



Tcxtfigure 1. 

 Hectocotylus of 

 Sepiella maitt- 

 droni de Roch. 



The species is very closely allied to the following 

 Sepiella inermi s , but differs from this in the proximal 

 part of the ^hectocotylus being provided with forty or 

 more, instead of only twenty, small suckers (Textfig. 



I)- 



43. Sepiella inermis (Van Hasselt 1839). 



Sepia inermis Van Hasselt MS., in d'Orbigny et 

 Férussac 1839, p. 286, Seiches, pi. vi bis; pi. 

 xx, figs. 9, 10 (Indian Ocean ; Batavia, Bom- 

 bay, Pondicherry, Coromandel). — d'Orbigny 

 1845, p. 295, pi. xii, figs. 9, 10. — Steenstrup 

 1875» PP- 475- 47 8 . P 1 - ». fi g- 3-— Tryon 1879, 

 p. 196, pi. xci, fig. 423; pi. xcii, figs. 424, 

 425. 



Sepia microcheirus, Gray 1849, p. 107 (India). 

 Sepiella inermis, Steenstrup 1880, pp. 347"356, figs. 

 1-8.— Goodrich 1896, p. 5 (Madras, near Bom- 

 bay, Sandheads, Chilka Bight, Mergui, Singa- 

 pore, Penang, off the Ganjam coast). — Joubin 

 1897, p. 103 (Nagasaki). — Joubin 1898, p. 25 

 (Timor).— Hoyle 1905, p. 982, fig. 152 (Hulule, 

 Male Atoll). — Berry 1912a, p. 424. 



