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tacular arms with very numerous microscopic cups. Shell very 
slender. 
Loligopsis vermicolaris Biippell , Giorn . del Gabinetto di Messina , 
xxvi. 1844-5. 
Hab. Sicily. 
** Sides with Bows of acute Tubercles. Shell solid at Tip . — 
Leachia LeSueur , Perotis Esch . 
5. Loligopsis cyclura. 
Body elongate, rather fusiform, attenuated behind, whitish, 
spotted with red ; sides with a longitudinal row of eleven 
acute four-pointed tubercles, and many smaller ones. Fins 
semicircular, broad, together subrhomboidal. Sessile arms 
large, conical, very contractile, unequal ; proportionate length, 
3, 2, 4, 1. Cups nearly spherical; rings oblique. Shell elongate, 
thin, very narrow anteriorly, lanceolate, rather dilated behind ; 
tip very sharp, attenuated, solid. 
Leachia cyclura LeSueur , Journ. Acad. Nat. Inst. Soc. Philad. ii. 
90. t. 6. 1821. 
Loligopsis cyclura Feruss. Diet. Class, ii. 68. pi. f. 3. 1823; D'Orb. 
Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 370. t. 23. f. 4. 
Loligo Leachii Blainv. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxvi. 135., Joum. de Phys. 
1823, p. 124. 
Loligopsis Leachii Feruss. D'Orb. Tab. de Ceph. 57. 1825. 
Loligopsis guttata Grant , Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. i. 21. t. 2. 1833; 
D'Orb. Ceph. Acet. Loligops. t. 1. f. 1. t. 3. t. 4. f. 9 — 16. 
Perothis pellucida Eschscholtz , MS. 1827. 
Perothis Escholtzii Bathke , Mem. de V Acad, des Sc. de St. Peter sb. 
par divers savans , ii. 149. 1835. 149. t. 1. f. 1 — 15. 
Hab. Indian Ocean. 
*** Doubtful Species. 
6. Loligopsis ? Peronii. 
Body fleshy, oblong ; the mantle subacute at the base, and finned 
inferiorly. Mouth terminal, surrounded with eight sessile and 
equal arms. 
Loligopsis Peronii Lamch. Cours de Zool. 123. 1812, An. s. Vert. 
vii. 659.; Ferussac , Diet. Class, ii. 68.; Feruss. et D'Orb. Tab. 
Ceph. 57. ; D'Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 372. 
Sepia sepiola Peronii LeSueur , Joum. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. ii. 
100. 1821. 
Sepiola minima Le Sueur , 1. c. 100. 1821. 
