octopedje: cirroteuthis. 23 



Poulpe cirrheux Montfort, Buff, de Sonnin. Moll. iii. 67. t. 33. 

 Octopus cirrhosus Lamck. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris., i. 21. 



n. 3. t. 1. f. 2. a, b. ; Fenissac, D'Orb. Tab. Method. Ceph. 56. 



n. 2. ; Blainville^ Diet. Sc. Nat. xlvii. 191. 

 Octopus ventricosus Grants Edin. New Phil. Journ. 1827, p. 309. ; 



Bullet. (Feruss. xii. 397. 1827.) 

 Eledone cirrhosus D'Orb. et Feruss. Mon. Ceph. Acet. Eledons^ 



t. 2. ; nOrb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 194. 



Hab. Coast of Britain and Europe. 



23. a. Berwick on Tweed. In spirits. Presented by G. 

 Johnston, M.D. 

 b. Dalmatia. In spirits. Purchased of Dr. Heckel. 



5. CIRROTEUTHIS. 



Body round. Fins oblong, transverse, dorsal. Aperture very 

 small, inferior. — Head small ; cervical band occupying three 

 fourths of the circumference. Eyes small, lateral ventral, 

 without eyelids. — Arrns equal, conical, subulate, united to- 

 gether by a thin funnel-shaped web, which is immediately at- 

 tached to the arms at the base (as high as the fifth cup) and 

 at the tip, but in the middle is united to the back of the arm 

 by a thin skin, forming a kind of pouch. Cups in a single 

 row, alternating with fleshy beards. — Siphuncle moderately long. 



Cirroteuthis Eschrich. Nov. Act. Nat. Cur.x\m. 625. (1836, 1838); 



JDesh. Lamck. Hist. ed. 2. xi. 234. 1 845. 

 Cirrhoteuthis Moller, Ind. Moll. Groen. 4. ; Koryer^ Naturk. Tidsk. 



iii. 98. iv. 77. ; JD'Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 198. 1845; Gray, 



Proa. Zool. Soc. 1847, 205. n. 795. (not Chiroteuthis UOrb.) 

 Sciadephorus Reinh. Sf Prosch, Kong. Dansk. v. Selsk. Naturv. xii. 



1846. 

 Sciadophorus. 1847, misprint, see Herrmann, 442. 

 Bostrychoteuthis Agassiz, Nomenclat, 87. 



1. Cirroteuthis Mulxeri. 



Body smooth, oblong, three -lobed. Fins longer than broad, blunt, 

 depressed. Eyes very small. Arms equal, quadrangular. Cups 

 very small, oval, about thirty ; beards between the cups filiform. 

 —Violet. 



Cirroteuthis MuUeri Eschrich. Nov. Act. Phys. Med. Acad. Ccbs. 



Leop. Nat. Cur. xviii. part 2. 625. t. 46, 47, 48. ; Desh. Lamck. 



Hist. xi. 234. 

 Cirrhoteuthis MuUeri D'Orbigny, Moll. Viv.etFos.i. 198. t. 4.; 



Moller^ Ind. Moll. Groenl. 4. 



