THE CEPHALOPODA. 



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given off from these ganglia are those which go to the bran- 

 chiae. 



Eyes, olfactory organs, and auditory sacs, are always 

 present. The eyes of the Cephalopoda may be lodged in 

 orbital cavities at the sides of the head, as in all the Dibran- 

 chiata ; or may be pedunculated, as in Nautilus. In the 

 former case, the eye is inclosed partly by the cephalic car- 



Fig. 12%— Sepia officinalis.— The nervous mass which sui-round? the gullet; JV, the 

 cerebral; iV', the pedal ; JV", the parieto-splanchnic ganglion; oo, the aorta; oe, 

 the oesophagus ; o'. buccal nerves ; P\ nerves to the anus ; M, pallial nerves ; g, 

 superior; g', inferior buccal ganglion. (After Garner.) 1 



tilage, to which sometimss special orbital cartilages are add- 

 ed, and partly by a fibrous capsule continuous with these. 

 The fibrous capsule becomes transparent over the eye, and 

 gives rise to what is variously interpreted as the representa- 

 tive of the cornea, or as that of the eyelids of vertebrated ani- 

 mals. This transparent coat is sometimes entire, or presents 

 only a small perforation ( Octopus, Sepia, Loligo, and the 

 other Myopsidw of D'Orbigny) ; sometimes it has a wide 

 opening, through which the crystalline lens may project (Lo- 

 ligophes, Ommastrepsis, and the other Oigopsidm of D'Or- 

 bigny) ; and sometimes it is altogether absent, and the capsule 

 of the eye becomes an open cup [Nautilus). 



In the Dibranchiata* a great part of the chamber of the 

 capsule of the eye is occupied by the ganglion, into which the 

 optic nerve enlarges after entering it ; by muscles ; and by a 

 peculiar white glandular substance. Lining the capsule, but 



i "Trans. Linnsean Society," 1836. 



2 See Hensen, " Ueber das Auge einiger Cephalopoden." (Zeitschrift fur 

 wissenscha/tliche Zoologie, 1865.) 



