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CATALOGUE OF CEPHALOPODA. 
§§§ Sessile Arms provided with very unequal-sized Cups , the middle 
one largest . Shell narrowed behind. 
28. Sepia capensis. 
Body ovate, oblong, smooth. Fins dilated behind. Sessile arms 
short, strong ; cups spherical, peduncled, very unequal in size, 
the middle one largest. Tentacular arms scarcely clubbed ; 
cups slightly oblique, in three series, the middle series with 
three much largest, and with the rings toothed on the inner 
edge. Shell much depressed, oblong, elongate, enlarged, and 
pointed in front, tapering, thin, very obtuse, and with an acute 
projecting beak behind. 
Sepia capensis D'Orb. Tab. Meth. Ceph. Seiches , t. 7. f. 1 — -3. 
1826, Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 283. ; D'Orb. et Feruss. Ceph. Acet. 
t. 7. f. 1 — 3. t. 12. f. 7—11. t. 17. f. 18, 19. 
Sepia australis Quoy Sf Gaim. Voy. Ast. Zool. 70. t. 5. f. 3 — 7. 
1832, not D’Orb. 1826. 
Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 
Yar. Shell larger, scarcely so arched and with much longer 
spine than in M. D’Orbigny’s figure. Perhaps a distinct species. 
a. Sydney. Shell. Dry. Presented by J. Edwards, Esq. 
ft. hr. 
b. Australia. Shell. Dry. Presented by A. Sinclair, M. D. 
r. hr. 
4 § Doubtful Recent Species. 
29. Sepia mucronata. 
Sepia mucronata Rafin. Precis des Decouv . Somiol. 29. 1814 » 
D' Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 299. 
Hab. Sicily. Perhaps this is the S. elegans. 
30. Sepia Antillarum. 
Sepia Antillarum D' Orb. Moll, des Antilles , i. 33. n. 8. 1838, Moll. 
Viv. et Fos. i. 300.’ 
Sepia Brown , Nat. Hist, of Jamaica, 386. 
Hab. Jamaica. 
5 § Fossil Species. 
* Tertiary , Paris Basin. 
31. Sepia sepioidea. 
Shell thick, narrow behind ; beak thick, elongate, acute ; lower 
lamina thick, reflexed, deeply radiated, edge toothed; upper 
callosity deeply rugose. 
