OCTOPODIDA. 21 
odor. Its flesh is more tender than that of the Octopus, but it 
has less taste and is not so well liked. It is used boiled, as a 
salad, fried or as a ragotut. 
The women of the tribe of M’talassa (Algiers), anoint their 
hair with the black liquid which they collect from this mollusk, 
but whether they use it as a dye or for the sake of its musk-like 
perfume, is not known. The perfume appears to be capable of 
industrial use.—AvcaPrraink, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 366, 1862. 
Johnston says of EL. octopodia, a species common in Northern 
Europe: “ When at rest, this octopod lies prone on the belly, 
the arms spread out in front, with their extremities exposed in 
spirals on the sides. It has in this position a considerable like- 
ness to a toad; and, often raising the back and head, its aspect 
is really repulsive and threatening. It moves quickly, and 
always retrograde, playing its arms in a regulated, graceful 
manner, which no one can contemplate without wonder in a 
body so grotesque and apparently so inapt for locomotion.’’— 
Proc. Berw. N. H. Club, i, 198. 
Bouir#zNaA, Steenstrup, 1850. 
More gelatinous than Eledone; suckers smaller, less developed. 
In the description of this genus no type is cited. In Wood- 
ward and Keferstein a single living species is mentioned, but 
without name. 
Crrroreutuis, Esehricht, 1856. 
Etym.— Cirrus, a filament, teuthis, a cuttle-fish. 
Syn.—Bostrychoteuthis, Agass., 1847. Sciadephorus, Rein. 
and Proch, 1846. 
Distr.—C. Mulleri, Esch. (xxiii, 7). Greenland. 
Body with two transverse medial fins ; mantle united to the 
head nearly all round, by a cervical band ; arms united by a web 
nearly to their tips. 
srauRoreutuis, Verrill, 1879. Allied to Cirroteuthis, but with 
the mantle united to the head all around, and to the dorsal side 
of the slender siphon, which it surrounds like a close collar, 
leaving only a very narrow opening around the base of the 
siphon laterally and ventrally. Fins triangular, in advance of 
the middle of the body. Dorsal cartilage forming a median 
angle directed backward. Body flattened, soft, bordered by a 
membrane. Eyes covered by the integument. Web not reaching 
the tips of the arms. Suckers in one row. Right arm of second 
pair is altered, in the male, at the tip. S. Syrtensis, Verrill. 
Near Sable Island. 
TritaxkEopus, Owen, 1881. 
Distr.—T. cornutus, Owen (xxiii, 10). Australia. 
Body not finned; suckers on the arms three-ranked. 
