132 PARASIRA, HALIPHRON, 



head and six small ones near each eye; arms elongated, order of 

 length 2, 1,3, 4, two dorsal pairs tlattened and \vel)l)ed to their 

 tips. 



Total length, 33 mill.; length of body, (')-;i mill.; lengtli of 

 arms 2. 23 mill.; 1, 15 mill.; 3. 13 mill.; 4, 13 mill. 



Mediterranean. 

 Genus PARASIRA, Steenstrup. 



P. CATENULATA, Fer. PI. 45, figs. 95-98. 



Body very large, oval, smooth above, retienlate and tuberculate 

 below ; aperture large ; head very short, scarcely distinct ; in- 

 ferior aquiferous apertures two; arms, graceful, ordei- of length 

 1, 4, 2, 3 ; scarcely webbed. 



Total length, 75 mill.; length of body. 22 mill.; length of 

 arms 1, 50 mill. ; 4, 43 mill. ; 2, 42 mill. ; 3, 39 mill. 



The flesh of this mollusk is tough and unwholesome, and for 

 these reasons is not sold in the markets. The Genoese fishermen 

 make of the skin of the body a sort of cap, whereof the reticu- 

 lations serve as ornaments. It is called PuIjju sepia in Sardinia 

 and Poui)ressa at Nice. 



Steenstrup (Vidensk Meddel., 332, 18(50) considers this the 

 female of the next species, but more recent authors separate them. 



Mediterranean. 



P. Caren^e, Verany. PI. 45, fig. 99. 



Pody rounded, acuminate behind, smooth ; head short ; arms 

 very unequal, order of length 4, 1, 2, 3, with thirty to fifty 

 suckers ; two aquiferous i)ores at the bases of the fourth pair of 

 iii'ni^- Mediterranean. 



OcYTiioE TUBERCULATA, Raf. The author expressly declares 

 that this is not the animal of the Argonaut, as supposed l)y 

 Leach, Gray and others. It is like Octopus, and weighs fifteen 

 pounds. The two sni)erior arms are winged (Binney & Try on 's 

 Rafinesque, p. 94). It may be founded on T. riolaceus or a 

 similar species. Mediterranean. 



Genus HALIPHRON, Steenstrup. 



Described from a single ar)n found in the stomach of a shark. 

 Xo species characterized. 



