OCTOPLD^ : OCTOPUS. 1 1 



Octopus niveus Feruss. UOrh. Tab. Method, des Ceph. 54. 1826; 

 Lesson^ Voy. de la Coquille^ Zool. ii. part 1. 239. t. 1. f. 1. 1 bis. 

 Hah. Manilla and Borapora. 



■f f I Body minutely granular. 



14. Octopus Saphenia. 



Body and arms minutely granular. Ocular beards none. Arms 

 moderate ; comparative length, 2, 3, 4, 1 ; three upper pairs 

 subequal. Web short, granular above. Cups subequal. 

 Hab. Pacific Ocean. 



a. East coast of South America. In spirits. Presented by 

 the Rev. AV. Henuah. 



15. Octopus Berenice. 



Body (in spirits) oblong. Head and base of the arms and back of 

 the body minutely granular, and with regularly disposed roundish 

 groups of small granules. Eyes with four or five granulated 

 tubercles on the dorsal edges, forming a fringe. Arms mo- 

 derate ; relative length, 2, 3, 4, 1. Cups very large, subequal. 

 Web moderate, rather wider below. 



Hab. 



a. ? In spirits. Presented by Mr. John Lead- 

 beater, 1805. 



16. Octopus lunulatus. 



Body short, covered with scattered tubercles, and about twenty 

 rounded prominent circles with concave centres, in six series. 

 Head short, thick, tubercular, with one medial and two lateral con- 

 vex circles, with a tubercle in the centre. Arms short, conical, 

 nearly equal ; order of their length, 4, 3, 2, 1 ; with a circle be- 

 tween the bases of the arms. Cups about fifty. Web very 

 short. — When alive, white, varied with blue circular spots paler 

 in the centre. 



Octopus lunulatus Quoy Sc Gaimard^ Zool. du Voy. de VAst. ii. 86. 

 t. 6. f. 1, 2.; D'Orhigny et Ferussac, Mon. des Ceph. Acet. 59. 

 PouLpes, t. 10. 26. ; UOrbigny, Moll Viv. et Fos. i. 182. n. 20. 



Hab. New Zealand, 



17. Octopus tetracirrhus. 



Body oval, slightly granular, with a posterior beard. Ocular 

 cirrhi two, anterior and posterior. Arms short, rather unequal in 

 length ; in order, 2, 3, 1, 4. Web very broad. Cups in two lines ; 

 the first three round the mouth in one line. — Yellowish when 

 alive. 



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