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Class CEPHALOPODA. 



Order DIBRANCHIATA. 



Family Octopodidae. 



Genus Octopus, Lamarck, 1799. 



Octopus superciliosus, Quoy et Gaimard. 



1832. Octopus superciliosus, Q. and G. Astrolabe, vol. 



ii., p. 88, pi. 6, f. 4. 

 1838. Octopus westerniensis, Quoy. d'Orb. Ceph. Acet., 



Poulpes, pi. 10, £. 3 (Brazier. Cat.) 

 1886. Octopus superciliosus, Hoyle. Ch'all. ZooL, vol. 

 xvi., p. 9, No. 16. 

 Hab. — Western Port, Bass Strait. 



Octopus boscii, Lesueur. 



1821. Octopus boscii, Lesueui". Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philad., vol. ii., p. 101. 

 1826. Octopus variolatus, Peron, Blainv. Diet. d. Sci. 



Nat., vol. xliii., p. 186. 

 1849. Octopus boscii, Gray. Cat. B.M., p. 12. 

 1886. Octopus boscii, var. pallida, Hoyle. Chall. Zoo)., 

 vol. xvi.. Cephalopoda, pp. 81, 82, pi. 1, 

 pi. 2, f. 2. 

 Hab. — East Moncoeur Island, Bass Sti-ait, 38 fatli., sand 

 and shells (Challenger). Port Phillip Heads (J. B. Wilson). 



Octopus australis, Hoyle. 



188o. Octopus australis, Hoyle. A.M.N.H., ser. 5, 

 vol. XV., p. 224 ; also P.R.S. Edin., vol. xiii., 

 p. 98. 

 1886. Octopus australis, Hoyle. Chall. Zool., vol. xvi., 

 Ceph., p. 88, pi. 3, f. 4, 5. 

 Hab. — Port Phillip Heads, dredged by Mr. J. B. Wilson. 

 Obs. — The type of this species was obtained by the Challenger 

 Expedition in Port Jackson, 6 to 15 fathoms. 



Octopus duplex, Hoyle. 



1885. Octopus duplex, Hoyle. A.M.N.H., ser. 5, vol. xv., 

 p. 226; P.R.S. Edin., vol. xiii., p. 101. 



