OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 1$ 



MOLLUSCA. 



* Cephala. 



Class. CErHALOPODA, Cuvier. 



Order. DIBRANCHIATA, Owen. 



Family.' Octopodid^, Grai/. 



1. ELEDONE, Leach. 



1. E. VENTRicosA, Grant. 



Sepia octopoda, Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 53, t. 28, f. 44. 

 Octopus ventricosus, Johns, in Berw. Club Proc. i. 197. 

 Not uncommon. We once met with it thrown up in great 

 abundance on Whitlej sands. — A. H. 



Dr. Johnston has given an excellent description of this spe- 

 cies in the Berwickshire Club Proceedings. 



Family. SEPiAOiE, D'Orhigny. 



2. SEPIOLA, Leach. 

 1. S. RONDELETII, Lcacll. 



Sepia sepiola, Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 54, t. 29, f. 46. 

 Sepiola vulgaris, Johns, in Berw. C. Proc. i. 199. 



Rather rare. Occasionally found in the stomachs of haddocks. 



" Not unfrequently caught in the shrimp nets at Seaton." — 

 Mr. Hogg. 



We have only once met with the spawn of this species. Ob - 

 serving some capsules separately attached by short footstalks to 

 a stone, brought in by the fishermen at Cullercoats, we carefully 

 detached them with a penknife, and placed them in a phial of 

 sea water. On taking a magnifier to examine our capture, we 

 found several little Sepiola? swimming briskly through the water 

 in all directions, and the capsules lying empty at the bottom of 

 the phial. The little creatures appeared to be of a blueish white; 

 but, on looking again, about a minute afterwards, we found that 



