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length of the shells varies from 130—180 mm. Many of the 
shells wore marks evidently due to bites from birds, presum- 
ably guils. On a single Sepia-shQW remains of the animal 
itself is said to have been found. The shells belong to the 
sub-species Filliouxi Laf., some few perhaps to Fischeri Laf. 
III. Sepia officinalis was formerly never found at the Faroes, 
and the shells were totally unknown to the inhabitants. Ac- 
cording to literature (Lovén, Forbes & Hanley, Pos- 
selt), the Southern coast of Norway, the coast of Bohuslån 
and the northern part of Scotland seem to be the hitherto 
northernmost finding places of shells of Sepia; in these places 
a few whole animals were furthermore found. The sudden 
occurrence of thousands of shells of this south- and west- 
european species at the Faroes in 1923 is hardly to be ex- 
plained in any other way than by supposing considerable 
change in the currents of the North-European seas to have 
taken place this year. 
9-10—1923. 
