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covered with a closely fitting membrane. Tentacular arms 
slender, feeble, scarcely clubbed, armed with hooks only. — 
Siphuncle with two superior central bands. — Shell pennate, 
lanceolate, sometimes sinuous at the side, and without any appen- 
dix at the tip ; the central ridge narrow, keeled, produced in front. 
Enoploteuthis D' Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos . i. 398., Ceph. Acet. 1839; 
Gray , Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847, 206.. 
Loligo sp. Leach , Zool. Misc. 1817. 
Onychotheutis sp. Ferussac , Tab. Syst. 26. 1821. 
Onychoteuthis sp. Ferussac D’ Orb. Tab. Cephal. 182 5 ; Verany , 
Mem. Acad. Torino , 1837. 
i Ommastrephes (pars) Gray , Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847, 206. 
* Body prolonged , and subvesicular behind ; tubercular beneath . 
1. Enoploteuthis Smithii. 
Head with numerous lines of small tubercles, one series extending 
up each side of the back of the arms. Body smooth above, with 
seven longitudinal lines of small rounded granules beneath ; the 
lateral lines irregular. Sessile arms square ; the dorsal pair 
slightly margined on the outer edge ; the second pair with a broad 
membranous edge ; hooks about sixty. Tentacular arms, lower 
oblong group of ten small cups, half open, rest olosed ; hooks ten, 
in two alternating lines. Shell lanceolate, rather broad, outer 
j edge regularly arched. 
[Loligo Smithii Leach , Tuckey s Expedition , Appen. 411. t. . f. 
adult, 1817 , Zool. Miscell. iii. 141. sp. 3. ; Blainv. Diet. Class. 
437., Journ. de Phys. xevi. 126. ; Feruss. Diet. Class, iii. 67. 
i Onychoteuthis Smithii Feruss. D' Orb. Tab. Meth. Ceph . 61. sp. 9. 
1825, Cephal. Aceph. t. 2. f. 3. cop. from Leach, 
i Loligo leptura Leach , Zool. Miscell. iii. 141. sp. 21. p. 3. 1817; 
Tuckey s Exped. Congo , App. iv. 411. t. f. 1817, Journ . de 
Phys. lxxxvi. 395. t. i. 3. 5. ; Blainv. Diet. Sc. Nat. xxvii. 137., 
Journ. de Phys. xevi. 126. ; Feruss. Diet. Class, iii. 67. n. 9., 
Atlas , t. f. 3. all from Leach. 
Onychoteuthis leptura Ferussac , Cephal. Acet . Onychoteuthis , t. 
2. f. 4. 1828, cop. from Leach. 
Onychoteuthis leptura Ferussac , Ceph. Acet . Onychoteuthis , t. 6. 
11. f. 6— 14. 1839. 
: Enoploteuthis leptura D'Orb. Sf Feruss. Moll. Ceph. Acet. Ony- 
choteuthis , t. 12. f. 20. 1839; D'Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 399. t. 
27. f. 1 — 9., Paleon. univer. t. 17. f. 1 — 9. 
Hab. Atlantic Ocean. 
a. W. Africa, lat. 1° 8' N., long. 26° 30' E. Adult. In 
