242 Proceedings <>f tJw Royal Soctefi/ of Victoria. 



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

 p. 90, pi. 7, f. o. 

 Hab.— Elwood Beach, Port Phillip (Rev. W. Fielder). 

 Obs.^The type was obtained by the Challenger Expedition, 

 off Twofold Bay. 



Family Argonautid.e. 

 Genus Argonauta, Linne, 1756. 



Argoxauta nodosa, Solander. 



1786. Argonauta nodosa, Solander. Portl. Cat., 76, 

 2120, vol. ii., p. 113. 



1786. Argonauta navicula, Solander. I/>n/., -12, 1055 



( = forma aurita), vol. ii., p. 112. 



1787. Argonauta oryzata, Meuschen. Mus. Gevers, 252, 



" No. 133. 

 1 1790. Argonauta tuberculata, Shaw. Nat. Hist. Miscell., 

 vol. xxiii., t. 995. 

 1822. Argonauta tuberculosa, Lamarck. Anim. S. Vert., 



vol. vii., p. 632. 

 1861. Argonauta tuberculosa. Reeve. Conch. Icon., 



pi. 1 ( = forma mutica). 

 1879. Argonauta nodosa, Tryon. Man. Conch., vol. 1, p. 



140, pi. 50, f. 124. 

 1886. Argonauta tuberculata, Hoyle. Chall. Zool., vol. 

 xvi., p. 4, No. 2. 

 Hab.— Port Phillip Bay (not uncommon), Bass Str.iit, and 

 coast generally at certain seasons. 



Obs. — Although Hoyle gives Shaw's specific name priority, he 

 at the same time mentions that he has been unable to ascertain 

 beyond doubt when Shaw's work was published, for the volume 

 bears no date. He further states that Dillwyn [o/>. a'f., p. xi.) 

 gives 1790; if this be correct Solander's name should take 

 precedence. As there is a doubt about the matter I pi'efer at 

 present to use Solander's name. Mr. J. Brazier in his Catalogue 

 of the Marine Shells of Australia and Tasmania, Part I., also 

 uses the latter, but he does not include Victoria as a locality of 

 its occurrence. 



