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blunt, not produced beyond the horny part at its base ; back 
rugose, subconcentric. 
Hab. ? 
a . In spirits. 
b. Its bone dry. 
4. Sepia Hierredda. 
Body ovate, depressed, rather tuberculate. Fins broad. Head 
with a beard on each eye. Ear with a longitudinal and a trans- 
verse ridge. Sessile arms thick, unequal ; order of their length, 
4, 3, 1, 2 ; rings of cups with small teeth. Tentacular arms 
with very unequal cups in six lines, the middle ones being very 
large ; the rings entire. Animal brown and yellow marbled, 
white-spotted, and with a series of six white lines on the 
sides. Shell ovate, compressed, wrinkled above, acuminated 
anteriorly, rounded posteriorly, with a long curved beak ; the 
last plate in all ages occupied half the cavity. 
Sepia Hierredda Rang , D' Orb. et Feruss. Seiches , t. 13., Magaz. 
de Zool. 75 . t. 100.; D’ Orb. Moll . des Canar . 21. n. 5., Moll. 
Viv . et Fos. i. 278. , D’Orb . et Feruss. Ceph . Acet. 268. n. 2., 
Seiches , t. 13. t. 18. 
Hab. Atlantic Ocean, Coast of Africa, Cape of Good Hope, 
Island of Teneriffe. , 
5 . Sepia latimanus. 
Body ovate, smooth, truncated in front, pointed behind. Fins 
narrow, blue- edged. Sessile arms slender, quadrangular, elon- 
gate, unequal; order of length, 4, 3, 2, 1 ; with four rows of cups; 
horny rings with very fine, close teeth. Tentacular arms dilated, 
strongly palmated, with five lines of cups, with six or eight very 
large ones, having their horny rings plaited on the edge. Shell 
oblong, rounded anteriorly, obtuse posteriorly, longly and 
acutely beaked. 
Sepia latimanus Quoy Sf Gaim. Zool. Voy. Astrol. ii. 68., Atl. Moll. 
t. 2. f. 2. 11. 1832 ; U Orb. et Feruss. Seiches , t. 12. f. 1 — 6. t. 
17. f. 16, 17. (1839) ; FiOrb. Moll . Viv. et Fos. i. 291. 
Sepia Bappiana Feruss. PI. des Seiches , n. 10. (1834). 
Hab. Indian Ocean, Hew Guinea, and the Celebes. 
6. Sepia tuberculata. 
Body ovate, tuberculated ; tubercles very unequal, divided into 
lobes. Fins narrow. Head tuberculated on the back, sides, 
and round the eyes, smooth below. Sessile arms short. 1 ;vu 
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