LOLIGlDiE : LEPTOTEUTHIS, BELOTEUTHIS. 
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1. Leptoteuthis gigas. 
Shell lanceolate, smooth, blunt in front, pointed behind. 
Leptoteuthis gigas Meyer , Mus. Lenskenb. i. 202. ; Bronn , Tas~ 
chenb. 1836, 56. ; D'Orb. Moll . Viv. et Fos. i. 363. t. 21. 
Fos . Oxford clay, SolenhofFen. 
7. BELOTEUTHIS, 
Animal unknown .-- -Shell internal, horny, lanceolate, flat, acumi- 
nated in front, enlarged and winged behind, with a central 
convex, and two diverging lateral concave ridges in the concave 
beneath. — Fossil . Upper Lias. 
Beloteuthis (pars) Munster , Beitr. Petref. vi. t. 5. f. 1. 1843; 
D'Orb. Moll . Viv. et Fos. i. 364. 184 5,Paleont. univ. t. 16. 1845. 
Sepiolites sp. Munster , 1843. 
Teuthopsis sp. ? Bronn , Ges . der Nat. iii. 541. 
1. Beloteuthis subcost ata. 
Shell compressed, lanceolate, attenuated in front, substriated 
above, and rather costated beneath. 
Beloteuthis subcostata Munster , Beitr . Petref. 61. t. 5. f. 2. t. 6. 
f. 2. ; D’ Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 363., Paleont. univ. t. 16., Pa - 
leont. etrang. t. 13. 
B. substriata Munster , 1. c. 62. t. 5. f. 3. t. 6. f. 5. 
B. acuta Munster , 1. c. 63. t. 6. f. 4. 
B. venusta Munster , 1. c. 64. t. 14. f. 2. 
B. ampullaris (pars) Munster , 1. c. t. 5. f. 1. not t. 6. f. 1. 
Sepialites substriatus Munster , 1. c. 76. t. 6. f. 6. ? 
-Fos. Upper Lias, Wurtemburg. 
8. BELEMNO SEPIA. 
Animal unknown. — Shell internal, horny, thin, broad; central 
part gradually increasing in breadth to the more or less pro- 
duced broad front part, and with a rounded expansion on 
each side behind ; the lines of growth of the central part trans- 
verse, and of the lateral wing arched and concentric ; the hinder 
part convex above and concave beneath. — Fossil. Upper 
Lias and Oxford Clay. 
Belemnosepia Agassiz, Lelirb. 1835, 627. 1836, 36. in Bnchland, 
Geol. i. 374. note, 1836, ed. 2. 414. 1839 : Desk, in Lamck. Hist. 
