OCTOPUS, ELEDONE. ati 
name for this and Eledone cirrosa (the only two Cephalopods 
they are familiar with) is “ Squib.” 
British distr ep acai Aberdeen (Macgillivray) to 
Cornwall (Borlase), and round the most of Ireland. It 
probably frequents all our waters. 
Foreign localities.—Throughout western Europe, and 
probably extending to the Mediterranean on the one hand 
and Greenland on the other. 
(Diviston B.—Ocroropa, Leach.) 
FamiIty Octopip&, D’Orbigny. 
Octopus, Lamarck. 
Octopus vulgaris, Lamarck. 
Sepia octopodia, Linné; Polypus octopodia and P. anti- 
quorum, Leach. 
Habitat.—Probably scarce in our Firth. I have only seen 
one example, lying dead on the shore at Toward. One was 
obtained last year in Rothesay Bay, one lately in Millport 
Bay, and a few others have been noticed from time to time. 
Public interest having of late years been aroused regarding 
this animal, we may expect more frequent notices of its 
occurrence in future. As is well known, it “plays a con- 
spicuous part” in an exciting episode in one of M. Hugo’s 
recent novels. 
British distribution.—Chiefly southern, being rather 
common in the Channel Islands, and ranging as far north as 
the Firth of Forth. 
Foreign localities—From the French coast southward 
throughout western Europe, and as far as the Canaries; 
common in the Mediterranean, where it grows to a large 
size and is used as food, but chiefly by the poorer classes. 
Forbes (in “Travels in Lycia”) says that when properly 
dressed “it makes a dish by no means to be despised, excel- 
lent in both substance and flavour.’ A recommendation of 
“roast porcupine to follow” rather shakes one’s belief in the 
Professor’s taste. 
ELEDONE, Leach. 
Eledone cirrosa, Lamarck. 
Octopus cirrhosus, Lamarch ; Sepia octopodia, Pennant (but 
not Linné) ; Octopus octopodia, Fleming; Eledone ventri- 
cosa, Alder ; Eledone Pennantii, Forbes. 
Habitat—I have taken two examples in 10 to 12 fathoms 
