14 CATALOGUE OF CEPHALOPODA. 



Octopus Cuvicri UOrb. Tab. des Ceph. Poulpes, t. 4. 1835, Moll. 



des Canaries, 16. n. 2., Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 173. n. 5. ; D'Orb. 



et Feruss. Mon. des Ceph. Acet. Poidpes, t. 1. 4. 24. 27. p. 18. ; 



Guerin, Icon, de Reg. Anim. Moll. t. 1. f. 1. 

 Octopus Lechenaultii D'Orb. Tab. des Ceph. Poidpes, t. 1. 1825. 

 Octopus macropus Risso, Hist. Nat. del Fur. Merid. iv. 3. n. 3. 



1826; Belle Chiaje, Mem. iv. 40. 56. p. 2. t. 54. p. 26. 1828; 



Blainv. Faun. Franc. Moll. 6. n. 2. ; Wagner, Zeitschr. fur die 



Organ, physik. ii. 225.; Bullet, des Sc. Nat. xix. 387. n. 1.; 



Rang, Mag. de Zool. 61. t. 90. ; Philijjpi, Enum. Moll. Sic. 240. 



n. 2. 

 Octopus macropodus Sangiovani, Ann. Sc. Nat. xvi. 319. 1829; 



Bullet, des Sc. Nat. xx. 338. 

 Octopus longimanus Feruss. MS. 



Hah. Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean, Red Sea. 



24. Octopus medoeia. 



Body, head, and base of arms minutely granular, with scattered 

 rather larger rounded tubercles. Body oblong, rather acute 

 behind. Eyes large ; ocular tentacles none. Arms elongate, 

 slender; comparative length, 1, 3, 4, 2. Cups rather small, 

 regular, equal, of the dorsal pair rather largest. Web moderate, 

 scarcely wider beneath, smooth above. 



Hah. ? 



a. ? In spirits. The left dorsal arm not fully 



developed, and with small cups like the other arms. 

 Somewhat like O. Cuvieri Feruss. Cephal. t. 4. 



3 § A Few of the Clips near the Base of the second and third Pairs 

 of Arms much larger than the rest. 



25. Octopus Fontanianus. 



Body large, oval, slightly warty ; aperture broad. Head narrow, 

 nearly smooth ; ocular beards one, posterior. Arms moderate 

 size, angular, subequal ; the inferior pair longest. Cups close 

 together, subequal, gradually diminishing in size ; the seventh to 

 the tenth cups of the second and third pairs of arms much largest. 

 Web very broad. — When alive, violet, deeper above. 



Sepia Octopus Molina, Hist. Nat. du Chili, p. 173.? 



Octopus Fontanianus D'Orbigny, Voy. dans VAmer. Merid. Moll. 

 28. t. 2. f. 5.; D'Orbigny et Ferussac, Mon. des Ceph. Acet. 49., 

 Poulpes, t. 28, 29.; UOrbigny, Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 179. n. 17. 



Hab. Pacific Ocean, coasts of Chili and Peru. 



