202 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vou. XIT, 
large webs on the third pair. Siphon pointed, and reaching 
halfway between the mantle and margin of umbrella. Prominent . 
tubercles surround the eyes and a few are scattered on the dorsal 
surface of the mantle. The ventral mantle has a median furrow, 
and eight little pits arranged in a row of four pairs at I mm. from 
the posterior end. As indications of similar pits appear elsewhere, 
I believe them to be surface indentations due to accidental 
pressure sustained in transit}. 
Colour buff with reddish-brown chromatophores, usually thinly 
distributed, but forming definite patches below each eye on the 
constriction between head and body, and also on each side of the 
mantle at about half way between the first patch and the end of 
the body. ‘The arms show dark patches on their outer surface 
arranged either in pairs or in single bars. 
The principal measurements are appended :— 
mm. 
End of body to mantle-margin ae é: ERS 
Mieyasoi te meee a = Oe 
Eye to umbrella are FS 2 ... 6'50 
Breadth of body be S. an SO 
5 ,, head ae ... 6°50 
Ist right arm ae ae ee ere oe) 
or1Giney " aie ue x Peay 
BT Gy, A > ee Be ae OMeSserip. 
Ati es; ‘3 zig # set Kon eee 
1st left wa aes aes Ke) 
anny S . oo - eae nae) 
Rintel op 4 7 aaa re dee S10) 
Athi * Be foe, alee 
Diameter of largest sucker is ca. *50 
Distribution.—Banda, Ternate. . 
Type.—In British Museum, one young specimen. 
Polypus globosus (Appellof). 
Octopus globosus, Appellof, K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl., XXI, pp. 
Fig 20), {Pies hy tes. eae (1886); Ortmann, Zool. Fahrb., Il, p. 662 
(1888) ; Octopus rugosus (pars), Ortmann, Zool: Fahrb., V, p. 669 
(1891); Octopus globosus, Goodrich, Trans. Linn. Soc., VII, p. 19, pl. 
5, fig. 81 (1896); Joubin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, XXII, p. 98 (1897) ; 
Appelléf, Abi. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., XXIV, pp. 565, 566 (1898) ; 
Polypus globosus, Hoyle, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinburgh, SVE 
p- 259 (no description) (1909); Berry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sct. danie, 
p. 388 (19122). 
M £82 Bombay—One ¢. 
M £278 Off Gopalpore, 25-28 fms., Sept., 1909, trawler ‘ Golden Crown’, 
Bengal Fish. Dept.—One @. 
M 2459 Bandra, near Bombay (F. W. Caunter)—One ¢. 
The globular body, small mantle-opening, ventral furrow, 
order of arms, and the colouring and sculpture of these three 
little specimens closely agrees with the description of the type. 
The umbrella, which is about one quarter the length of the arms, 

| All the specimens were wrapped in muslin and closely packed in soldered 
in boxes, and a few specimens had metal labels. 
