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The Tentacles are as long as the mantle, with a three-sided 
flattened stem , much broader proximally than distally. The club is 
slightly expanded, with a narrow protective membrane below, a 
broad one above, and a distinct web outwardly. There are five or 
six series of suckers, slightly larger in the middle than at the margins, 
on very long slender peduncles : the horny ring is smooth. 
The Surface bears a number of small irregularly scattered papillae, 
and four or five elongated warts near the origin of the fins on the 
dorsum, and some folds in the skin on the ventral surface; pro- 
bably these are due to contraction. 
The Colour is a dull grey with a bluish shade above inclining 
to yellow below. 
The Shell has an elongate oval outline , broadest one-third of the 
way back and rounded off at both ends. The chitinous margin is 
narrow anteriorly, then broader, evanescent posteriorly, a deep cal- 
careous ridge forming the posterior extremity of the shell; it extends 
very little over the dorsal surface , which bears only faint indi- 
cations of a median ridge, and is beset with fine granules disposed 
in rows parallel to the anterior margin. The ventral surface is ele- 
vated so as to give the shell a more than average thickness : the last 
loculus occupies one-third the surface and is bounded by a trans- 
verse hemielliptical curve : the striated area is excavated, but slightly 
convex in the middle line. The inner cone consists only of the 
slightly elevated limbs, which run along three-quarters of the striated 
area and unite with each other as a flattened fillet posteriorly. The 
spine has lost its extreme point, but is strong, and has raised a knife- 
like ridge developed upon its ventral aspect.* 
Hab. Off south-east coast of Australia (Station 163), depth 2200 
fathoms. One specimen, $. 
Metasepia, subgen. nov. 
Sepia (. Metasepia ) Pfeferij, Hoyle. 
Sepia ( Metasepia ) Pfefferi , Hoyle, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, 
vol. xvi. p. 199, 1885. 
The Body is short and stout, broadest about the middle of its 
length, very thick (dorso-ventrally), and bluntly rounded behind. 
* Whence the specific name. 
t Named after Dr Georg Pfeffer of the Hamburg Museum. 
