times ii is found .stranded at Low tide, in the rock pools 

 on various parts of the coast. Curiously enough, the 

 Eledones obtained are almost always females. The 

 relative; abundance of the sexes appears to be fifty 

 females to one male. This disparity in proportion is also 

 noticeable to a greater or less degree in all Cephalopoda. 

 Possibly the males, besides being fewer in number, 

 remain in deeper water, the females alone coming in with 

 the warmer weather to spawn, or, again, the males may 

 have a different method of concealment. 



Habits. 



Eledone cannot be called an active animal. When 

 kept in a tank, if undisturbed, it passes most of its time 

 resting'. Its attitude is often, as Text tig. 1 shows, with 

 the arms bent at an acute angle to the body, and adhering 

 to the floor of the tank by the suckers on the proximal regions 

 of the arms. The visceral dome also rests postero-ventrally 

 on the ground, and the eyes are more or less closed. At 

 other times it rests with the tentacles folded together so as 

 to form an oval disc of attachment by which it (dings to 

 the wall of the tank, the body hanging downwards in the 

 water. 



When disturbed, Eledone seeks to escape by 

 swimming rapidly backwards, the motion being obtained 

 by ejecting powerful jets of water forward from the 

 anterior opening of the funnel. When swimming, the 

 arms are stretched out horizontally in a straight line 

 with the rest of the body, while the visceral dome points 

 forwards. The eight arms lie closely together, and 

 looking down on the animal from above, six arms may be 

 seen. Of these the outermost pair— II ventral are 

 curved outwardly in the middle region. Thus Eledone 

 docs not use the web when swimming, but only when 



