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CATALOGUE OF CEPHALOPODA. 
Embalmed Calamary (Celaeno, Munster) Owen, , Phil. Trans . 1844, 
84. t. 4. f. 2. ? ? 
Fos. Upper Lias, W urtemburg and Lyme Regis, 
9. Belemnosepia obconica. 
Shell conical, oblong, dilated in front, truncated; side wing narrow. 
Geoteuthis obconica Munster , Beitr. Petref. v. t. 9. f. 1. 1843. 
Belemnosepia obconica B' Orb. Paleont . univ. t. 29. f. 45. 1846, 
Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 441. 
Fos. Upper Lias, Franconia. 
d. Shell horny , shorter than the Bach. Fin short , on the Middle of 
the Sides of the Bach. 
9. ROSSIA. 
Body separate at the neck, purse-shaped, rounded behind, trun- 
cated before. Cervical band none. Mantle supported in front 
or below by a small tubercle, fitting into an elongate cartilagi- 
nous groove at the base of the siphuncle, above at the nape a 
central ridge received into a groove. Fins oval, oblong, broad 
on the middle of the sides of the back. — Head large, depressed, 
narrowed behind the eyes. Eyes large, lateral, superior, with 
an inferior eyelid. Buccal membrane short, six-lobed. Ears 
behind, a little below the eyes. — Sessile arms strong, thick, 
conical, subulate, unequal ; cups fleshy, globular, sessile, in 
two or four series ; rings horny, convex, toothless ; third and 
fourth pair distinctly webbed. Tentacular arms retractile into 
a large subocular cavity, long, cylindrical, with clubbed and 
finned ends ; without any protective membrane for the cups, 
with pediceled spherical cups on two alternating lines ; 
their rings swollen externally and toothed on the upper edge. 
— Siphuncle without any superior band at its junction with the 
head. — Shell horny, lanceolate, only occupying the anterior 
half of the body. 
Rossia Owen , V. Boss , Voy. Append. 1835, Trans. Zool. Soc. 
1828 ; Weigm. Arch. i. 298. 1836; B'Orb. Cephal. Acep. 1839, 
Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 235. 1845 ; Gray , Syn. B. M. 92. 1842, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847. 205; Moller , Ind. Moll. Groen , 3.; 
Loven , Ind. Moll. Scand. 3. 
Sepiola sp. Gervais Van Beneden , Bull. Acad. Brux. 1 838 ; 
Belle Chiaje : MS. ; Besh. in Lamch. Hist. ed. 2. xi. 221. 1845. 
