SEPIADiE : SEPIA. 
99 
§ Sessile Arms with small equal Cups placed in four regular alter- 
nating Lines. 
* Tentacular Arms with unequal-sized Cups placed in five or six 
Lines. 
1. Sepia officinalis. 
Body ovate, depressed, smooth. Head with two elongated, and some 
smaller beards above. Sessile arms short, strong, unequal ; order 
of length, 4, 3, 2, 1 ; ring of cups smooth, entire. Tentacular 
arms much enlarged, with six alternating lines of cups, the five 
central cups much larger ; rings of the larger cups smooth, of 
the smaller ones toothed. Shell ovate, compressed, wrinkled 
above, semi-cartilaginous on the edge and behind, rounded pos- 
teriorly ; when young the apical beak is conical, prominent, and 
the upper part of the last internal plate occupied ; half the beak 
becomes immersed in the cartilages, and the plate is diminished 
to one third the length of the cavity in the adult. — Back purple, 
with darker cross bands, forked, and with small white spots on 
the side. 
Sepia officinalis Linn. Fauna Suecica , n. 2106., Syst. Nat. edit. 12. 
1095. n. 2. ; Gmel. Syst. Nat. edit. 13. 3149. n. 2. ; Scopoli , Hist. 
Nat. Ohs. Zool. 127. ; Pennant , Brit. Zool. iv. 55. ; Gronovius , 
Zoophyl. 244. n. 1021.; Brug . Encyc. Meth. t. 76. f. 56.; 
Wulfen , Nov. Act. Phys. Med. Berlin , viii. 379. ; Lamar ch, 
Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris , 4., Syst. des Anim. s. Vert. 59., 
Hist. An. s. Vert. vii. 668. ; Bose , Hist. Nat. des Vers , i. 45. n. 
1.; Leach , Nat. Miscell. iii. 138.; Carus , Icon. Sep. Nov. Act. 
Nat. Cur. xii. 317. t. 28. ; Martens , Reise nach Venedig , ii. 436. ; 
Payrad. Cat. Moll, de Corse , 173. n. 54.; Risso , Hist. Nat. Eur. 
Merid. iv. 3. n. 10. ; Blainv. Diet. Sc. Nat. xlviii. 284., Faune 
Franq. 18.; Deshay es, Enc.Meth. Vers , iii. 944. n. 1.; Bouchard , 
Cat. Moll. Mar. 72. n. 125. ; Potiez et Mich. Gal. Moll, de 
Douai , i. 8. n. 1.; Philippi , Enum. Moll. Sic. 241. n. 1.; D' Orh. 
Moll, des Canar. 20. n. 4., Cephal. Acet. 260. n. 1., Seiches , t. 
1, 2, 3. f. 1—3. t. 17. f. 12., Paleont. univ. t. 3. f. 1—5. t. 4. f. 
13 — 16., Paleont. etrang. t. 3. f. 1 — 5. t. 4. f. 13 — 16 ; Cantraine , 
Malac. Nouv. Mem. de Brux. xiii. 14. n. 1.; D' Orhigny, Moll . 
Viv. et Fos. i. 272. t. 12. f. 1—5. t. 13. f. 13—16. 
Seiche commune Montfort , Buff, de Sonnin. Moll. i. 171. 
Sepia rugosa Bowdich's Elements of Conchology , t. 1. f. 1. 
Sepia Schneider , Sammlung Verm. 108. 
Hab. Atlantic Ocean, Coasts of Europe and Africa, Mediter- 
ranean. 
a. Torbay, Devonshire, England. In spirits. Presented by 
J. Ii. Griffith, Esq. 
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