BY JAMES C. COX, M.D., F.L.S., ETC. 789 



Form of the cups, if correct would indicate a different family. 

 —Gray. 



Hah. Australia. 



Octopus pustuhsus, Peron ; Tryon, p. 126. 



Body rugose. Arms shorter and thicker than those of 0. 

 rariolatus, and with larger and fewer cups. Brownish-green. 



Hah. Australia. 



Genus Pinnoctopus, Orb. . 



Pinnoctopus cordiformis, Quoy ; Tryon, p. 128, pi. 40, fig. 64. 



Body orbicular, tuberculate, winged ; arms long, nearly equal, 

 lateral ones shortest ; eyes rather prominent. Bed brown ; arms 

 with pale blue lunules. Total length 39 in., length of body 8 in. 



Hah. New Zealand. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Note on Limopsis Loringi found on the Coast of New South 

 Wales; by J. Brazier, C.M.Z.S., Corr. Acad. Sc. Phil. &c— 

 Limopsis Loringi, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 183. pi. xx, fig. 6, 

 1873. ITah. Broughton Isles north of Port Stephens, 35 fathoms 

 sandy mud bottom (Mr. W. Haswell); dredged off the coast of 

 Queensland (Mr. G. F. Angas). This magnificent and rare 

 species I found to day in a lot of dredgings obtained last year by 

 Mr. W. A. Haswell, B.Sc, when on an excursion to the north of 

 Sydney on behalf of the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 

 this specimen has lost a little of the beautiful rose-colour through 

 being put into spirits, the margins have a much finer pale brown 

 epidermis projecting in a fringe nearly all round, than in the 

 specimen described by Mr. Angas. 



Mr. Selkirk exhibited some very interesting fossil shells from 

 Harpur's Hill, Hunter Eiver, including casts of Spirifer glaher, 



