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CATALOGUE OF CEPHALOPODA. 
jf The sessile Arms with two Hows of Cups ; the lower Pair with 
eight Hows of smaller Cups at the Tip. 
4. Sepiola atlantica. 
Body oblong, purse- shaped, rounded behind. Fins oval, far apart. 
Sessile arms short, unequal ; proportionate length, 3, 2, 4, 1 ; 
cups small, oblique, in two series ; lateral arms larger ; fourth 
or the ventral pair with two rows at the base, seven or eight 
crowded rows of smaller cups at the tip. Tentacular arms 
rather long. Shell linear, narrow, gradually enlarged upwards, 
and spathulate behind the tip, sides thickened. 
Loligo Sepiola Bouchard , Cat. des Moll. Mar. du Boulonnais , 71. ? 
1835. 
Sepiola vulgaris Gervais 8f Van Beneden , Bull, de VAcad. de 
Bruxelles , iv. n. 7. 1838, not Grant. 
Sepiola atlantica IX Orb. Sf Feruss. Cephal. Acet. 235. n. 4., Se- 
pioles , t. 4. f. 1 — 12. 1839 ; FX Orbigny , Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 247. 
t. 10. f. 1—12. 1845. 
Sepiola oceanica TX Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. t. 10. f. 13. 1845. 
Hab. Atlantic Ocean. 
M. D’Orbigny, at page 247., describes the dorsal pair of sessile 
arms as having four rows of cups, but he does not mention this in the 
longer description. The British specimens in the British Museum 
do not belong to this species. 
fft The sessile Arms with eight Hows of Cups. 
5, Sepiola stenodactyla. 
Body short, rounded behind. Fins subcircular. Head large. 
Sessile arms thick and short, rather unequal ; cups large, 
spherical, in seven or eight rows, rather irregularly disposed. 
Tentacular arms long, slender ; club indistinct ; cups very 
minute. — Purple, arms cross banded. 
Sepiola stenodactyla Grant , Trans. Zool. Soc . Lond. 1833, i. 84. t. 
11. f. 1, 2. and f. 6. apex of sessile arms ; Gervais et Van 
Beneden , Bull, de VAcad. de Bruxelles , v. n. 7. from Grant ; 
B' Orb. et Feruss. Ceph. Acet 238. n. 5., Sepioles , t. 2. f. 1, 2. 
'6. ; D’ Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i, 252. n. 4. 
Hab. Mauritius. Mus. Zool. Soc. 
The name stenodactyla must ha^e originated in a mistake, for 
Dr. Grant expressly says the arms are proportionally much thicker 
and shorter than in S. vulgaris , 1. c. p. 85. 
