EOLIGID2E I FIDENAS. 
95 
* Body and Head tubercular beneath ; internal Cartilage of Man** 
tie broad , contracted in the Middle . — Sepiolidea H Orb. 
6. Sepiola lineata. 
Head and body smooth above, strongly tubercular on the sides 
beneath, tubercle with a horny centre, dorsal edge of mantle 
bearded. Body short, rounded. Sessile arms short, quadran- 
gular, rather unequal ; two upper pairs slenderer and shorter , 
and webbed at the base ; cups hemispherical, in two alternate 
regular series on the base, and then small and in four series ; 
their rings very high, and with an external border. Tentacular 
arms slender, lanceolate at the end, and with twenty series of 
very numerous, exceedingly small, crowded cups. — Whitish, with 
longitudinal blue or opake white lines. 
Sepiola lineolata Quoy 8f Gaim. Zool. Voyl Ast. ii. 82., Moll. t. 5. 
f. 8 — 13. 1832; Gervais et Van Beneden , Bull, de V Acad, de 
Bruxelles , v. 7. 
Sepioloidea lineata D' Orb. SfFeruss. Cephal. Acet . 240. t. 3. f. 10 
- — 18. 1834, Ann. Sci. Nat. xvi. ; HOrb. Moll. Viv . et Fos. l. 
242. t. 9. 
Hob. Jervis Bay, Hew Holland. 
11. FIDENAS. 
Body oblong, rounded behind, united to the head by a broad 
cervical band ; a linear cartilage on each side, in the base of 
the siphuncle. Fins oblong, on the sides of the back. — Head 
moderate. Eyes large, lateral. — Sessile arms subulate, roundish, 
elongated, tapering, free, except the third and fourth pairs, 
which are united together by a short web. Cups very small, 
globular, two-rowed, longly pedunculated; peduncles suddenly 
contracted, very thin near the cup. Tentacular arms destroyed? 
— Siphuncle very large, long, free from the head. — Shell ~ — — _ ? 
or none. 
Is this the same as, or allied to, Rossia subulata ? but tbe cups 
ire said to be supported on a short pedicel ; has that species a 
cervical band ? for the bone is described as like Sepiola. 
1. Fidenas Pen ares. 
Bab. Indian Ocean. 
a. Singapore. In spirits. Not good state, lost the peduncu- 
lated arms. 
