JOURNAL 



Of THE 



IB O Is/L IB .A. IT 



Ho. 2J 



BOMBAY, APRIL 1887, 



[Vol. ]{. 



WATERS OF WESTERN INDIA. 

 Part III. — This Konkan and Coast. 



(By a Membt r of the Society.) 



We now collie to the aquatic invertebrates, creatures not only 

 in themselves difficult to examine and describe ; but as yet not dealt 

 with in any handy local text-book.* The following notes, therefore, 

 will not be very scientific:- — 



To begin with the Mollusca, or <e shell-fishes " and their allies; 

 we find at their head the Cephalopoda ; Nautili, Cuttle-fishes ami 

 Squids ; the most of which have no visible shell at all ; and only one 

 has a real shell. 



This is the Pearly Nautilus, the sole survivor of an enormous 

 number of "shelled cuttle-fish" having 4 gills, numerous rather 

 short arms, and no ink-bag\ 



I never got but one specimen here; a dead shell very much 

 the worse for wear, which may have been hove overboard from 

 some ship. 



Next, for convenience, I shall take the so-called " Paper Nautilus. '' 

 This was the Nautilus of the ancients- but we now distinguish it as 

 *' Argonauta." 



* My friend Mr. Murray is engaged np^n a Monograph of our Crustacea, to appeal 



in his Periodical, which is badly wanted. 



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