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brown colour, inhabits the Channel on the coasts of France, 

 and should be sought for on our own shores. 



ELEDONE. Leach. 



Animal with an oval body ; its head furnished with 

 eight nearly equal arms, provided with sessile suckers 

 ranged in single file on their inner sides. Sexes similar. 



This genus has scarcely sufficient claim to be kept dis- 

 tinct from Octopus. Such a species as the Eledone macro- 

 podius of some authors, Octopus of others, which was the 

 original EAs^oj^ of Aristotle, links the two groups to- 

 gether. 



E. cirrhosus, Lamarck. 



Plate KKK. fig. 4, and MMM. fig. 1. 



Sepia octopodia, Pennant, Brit. Zool. vol. iv. p. 53, pi. 28, f. 44. 

 Octopus cirrhosus, Lam. Mem. Soc. Nat. Hist, de Paris, vol. i. p. 21, pi. 1, f. 2, 

 a, b. ; An. Sans Vert. vol. vii. p. 658. — Ferus. and 

 D'Orbig. Tab. Meth. des Ceph. p. 56. — Blainv. Diet, des 

 Sc. Nat. vol. xlvii. p. 191. 

 Sepia cirrhosa, Bosc. Vers. vol. i. p. 47. 

 Octopus octopodia, Fleming, Brit. An. p. 254. 



„ ventricosus, Grant, Ed. New Phil. Jour. vol. ii. p. 309. — Johnston, 

 Berw. Nat. Club, vol. i. p. 197. — Ball, Proc. Royal Irish 

 Acad. vol. ii. p. 193. 

 Eledone Pennantii, Forbes, Malac. Monensis, p. 1. — Macgilliv. Moll. Aberd. 

 p. 31. 

 „ cirrhosus, D'Orbig. and Ferus. Ceph. Acet. pi. 2. — Loven, Index 

 Moll. Scand. p. 3. — D'Orbig. Moll. Viv. et Foss. vol. i. 

 p. 194. — Verany, Moll. Med. pt. 1, p. 15. 

 „ ventricosa, Alder, Moll. Northumb. p. 13. 



The body is ovate (often four or five inches in length by 

 three or four in breadth) truncate anteriorly, rounded poste- 

 riorly, slightly depressed on the back, where the skin is mi- 

 nutely granulated. Beneath it is smooth. The siphon is 

 somewhat conical and pale. The head is broad, depressed 

 in the centre, very prominent on each side above the eyes, 



