120 OCTOPUS. 



arms short, thit-k, five or six bearded externally, couico- 

 subulate, nearly equal ; cups rather large, one or two lowest one- 

 rowed ; web moderate, extending up the outer edge of the arms. 

 Bluish, with large, regular, round, white spots. 



Bed Sea ; South Africa. 



O. FiLosus, Howell. PI. 3(;. fig. .oO. 



Body oval, purse-shaj^ed, with dorsal beards ; head narrow, 

 short, with a depression between the prominent eyes ; ocailar 

 beards six; arms robust for about half their length, then abruptly 

 becoming filamentous, wliere the cui)s are in a single rowto their 

 tips; web moderate. Heddish. inner surface of arms cream 

 color. 



Remarkable for tlie long and tlnead-likc tei'ininations of the 

 arms. 



Verv active ; caught witli difHcult\ . 



Si. Croix, W. I. 

 Arms 4, 2, 3, 1. 



O. ACULEATUs. Orb. PI. 2(;. figs. 12-14. 



Body short, rounded, small, coxcred near the head with 

 numerous beards ; liead long-l)earded, beards crowded, forming 

 a circle round the eyes ; arms thick, bearded externally; cups 

 very large and numerous ; web short. AVhitish. 



Manilla ; Borapora. 



c. Body minutely granular. 



Arms 2, 3, 4, 1. 

 O. Saphenia, (ilray. 



Ocular beards none ; arms moderate, three upper pairs sub- 

 equal ; web short, granular above. Di'scrilted from specimens in 

 alcohol (Brit. Mus.) ; not figured. 



Pacific Ocean ; E. Coast of South America. 

 0. Berenice. (J ray. 



Body oblong, minutely granular and with regularly disposed 

 roundish groups of small granules ; eyes fringed with four or 

 five granulated tubercles on the dorsal edges ; arms njoderate ; 

 cups very large ; web inodeiate, rather wider below. 



From specimen in spirits (Brit. Mus.), presented in 1805 ; not 

 figured. 



Habitat unknown. 



