104 THE NAUTILUS. 
Octopus rugosus Bose. A few which are evidently this species, 
one large specimen is preserved in alcohol. 
Argonauta argo I. Occasionally a shell is found after a storm. 
Loligo pealii Lesueur. Quite common. 
Ommastrephes bartramti Lesueur. One specimen, probably this 
species, is preserved in alcohol in a private collection. 
Spirula peronii Lam. The internal spiral shells are common 
among the debris after storms. 
Murex spinicostata Valence. Living examples are rare. I have 
seen but three. By the numbers found in the shell mounds and 
fields it seems to have formally been quite plentiful and a special 
object of capture among the aborigines. 
Urosalpinx cinereus Say. Common on oysters. 
Eupleura caudata Say. A few specimens. 
Purpura hemastoma L. var. floridana Cour. Common on the old 
light-house rocks. It varies greatly in form. I have specimens 
varying from those without a shoulder or tubercles on the body- 
whorl, to those that are shouldered and bearing two prominent rows 
of tubercles. 
Purpura hemastoma L. var. undata Lam. A few specimens found 
with the above. 
Fasciolaria distans Lam. I think that this is distinct from F. 
tulipa L. The specimens collected here show no intermediate form. 
It seems to have a more limited distribution. JI do not remember 
seeing any in the southern part of Florida, and among the quantities 
of shells brought from the Bahamas I never observed one, though F. 
tulipa L., is quite common. A color variety is occasionally found 
here in which the maculations and revolving lines are reddish-yellow 
to pink. 
Fasciolaria tulipa Linn. Not common. 
Fasciolaria gigantea Kien. Several specimens. I found a living 
specimen in the harbor nearly two feet in length. 
Fulgur carica Gmel. Common and quite destructive to the 
oysters. 
Fulgur carica Gmel. var. eliceans Mont. Thick and gibbous, with 
fewer and larger spines, occasionally a double row of spines on the 
shoulder of the whorls. More plentiful than the typical. 
Fulgur perversa Linn. Common and some unusually large 
specimens. 
