ONY CHOTEUTHID2E .* OMMASTREPHES. 
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Tentacular arms elongate, compressed ; club scarcely enlarged, 
covered only with cups, the lower ones in two series, the central 
in four ; large of central scarcely oblique, the small lateral ones 
very oblique ; upper part with a multitude of small cups in 
eight rows. Shell narrow, elongate ; lateral ribs largest ; apical 
cone large. 
Sepia loligo Linn. Syst. Nat. edit. 12. 1095. n. 4. 1767 ; Gmel. Syst . 
Nat. edit. 13. 3150. ; Brug. Enc. Meth. t. 77. f. 12. 
Sepia media Barbut , Gen. Verm. 75. t. 8. f. 3. 1788. 
Loligo sagittata var. (3. Lamck. Mem . Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris , 13. 1799, 
Anim. s. Vert. vii. 665. ; Blainv. Faun. Franq. 15. ; Payrau - 
deau , Cat. Moll. Corse , 173. n. 353. ; Bisso , Hist. Nat. iv. 6. n. 
8. ; Guerin , Icon. Reg. Anim. t. 1. f. 5. ; Philippi , Enum. Moll. 
Sic. 241. n. 2.; Cantraine , Nouv. Mem . Acad. Brux. xiii. 15. 
n. 1. 
Calmar harper Montfort , Buff, de Sonnin. ii. 65. t. 14. 1805. 
Loligo illecebrosa Le Sueur, Journ. Acad. Philad. ii. 95. 1821? 
Blainv. Did Sc. Nat. xxvii. 142., Journ. de Phys. 1823, p. 130.; 
Feruss. U Orb. Tab. des Ceph . 63. n. 5., Ceph. Acet. Loligo , t. 
7. from LeSueur. 
Loligo harpago Feruss. Did. Class, iii. 67. n. 3. 1823. 
Loligo Brongniartii Blainv. Did. Sc. Nat. xxvii. 142. r 1823, 
Journ. de Phys. 1823, p. 130.; Feruss. D'Orb. Tab. des Ceph. 
63., Ceph. Acet. t. 4. 1825. 
Loligo piscatorum La Pylaie , Ann. Sc. Nat. iv. 319. 1825 ; Feruss . 
D' Orb. Tab. Meth. Ceph. 63. n. 6., Ceph. Acet. Loligo , t. 5. 
Loligo Coindetii Verany , Mem. Acad. Sc. Torino , t. 1. f. 4. 1837. 
Ommastrephes sagittatus D' Orb. Sq Feruss. Ommastrephes , t. 1 . f. 
1 — 10. rings, &c. 1839; D'Orb. Paleont. univ. t. 22. f. 12 — 16., 
Paleont. etrang. t. 19. f. 12 — 16., Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 418. t. 
29. f. 12 — 16. 
Hab. Atlantic Ocean, Newfoundland, used in the codfishery. 
Mediterranean. 
ff Tentacular Arms with Cups in four Rows, those in the Centre oj 
the middle Part rather larger. 
2. Ommastrephes jequipoda. 
Body elongate, rather tapering behind. Fins rhombic, one third 
the length of the body. Tentacular arms short, naked half 
their length ; club compressed, winged externally, with four 
series of regularly disposed cups, those of the sides and end 
equal-sized, the twentieth or twenty-second in the two central 
series of the middle part larger. 
