;278 



ENDEAVOUR SCIENTIFIC RESULTS. 



So far as the 

 present specimen 

 is concerned I 

 quite fail to detect 

 the close relation- 

 ship of P. australis 

 with P. macro pus 

 (Risso) which has 

 been remarked 

 upon by Joubin 

 and Massy, a fact 

 Fig. 0,2.— Polypus cf australis $ [536], three rows which WOuld still 

 of teeth from one side of radula ; part camera further lead me 

 drawing from a mount in balsam. ^q doubt the 



correctness of the identification suggested, were it not that Miss 

 Massy expressly mentions that her New Zealand specimens 

 lack the ventro -lateral fold of the integument originally 

 described for Hoyle's species. I have been unable to secure 

 as clear a representation of the radula as that offered by 

 Miss Massy, but I think that the differences between her 

 fig. 9 and my Fig. 62 are too great for complete explanation 

 in this way, and strongly indicate that her material and the 

 " Endeavour " specimen at least are not conspecific. 



Polypus vakiolatus, de Blainville, 1826. • 



<Plates Ixxix-lxxx ; plate Ixxxi, figs. 2-3 ; plate Ixxxii, 



figs. 1-4.) 



? 1821. Sepia Boscii Lesueur — Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 V. 2, p. 101 [noynen nudum). 



? 1826. Octopus variolatus, Blainville — Diet. Sci. Nat., v. 

 43, p. 186. 



? 1838. Octopus Boscii, d'Orbigny, in d'Orbigny and 

 Ferussac — Ceph. Acet., p. 68. 



? 1845. Octopus Boscii, d'Orbigny — Moll. viv. foss., p. 186. 



1849. Octopus Boscii, Gray — Ceph. Brit. Mus., p. 12. 



1852. Octopus tetricus, Gould— Moll. U.S. Expl. Exp., p. 

 474, fig. 588. 



1885. Octopus Boscii, var. pallida, Hoyle — Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., (5), V. 15, p. 223. 



