30 CATALOGUE OF CEPHALOPODA. 



1. OCYTIIOE. 



See character of the Family. 

 Ocythoe Rafin. Anal. Nat. 1815 ; Leach, Phil. Trans. 1818; Blainv. 



Malac. 1825. 

 Octopus €. Blainville, Malac. 1825. 

 Ocytoe UOrb Moll. Viv. et Fos. p. 223. (misprint ?). 

 Shell, Argonauta Linn. 

 Nautilus, Nautileus, Aristoteles. 

 Nautilus, Pompilius, Plinius. 

 Cymbium Gualteri, 1742. 

 Argonauta Linn., Brug., Rafin. Anal. Nat. 1815; Risso, Eur. 



Merid. 1826 ; Lamarck, UOrb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 260. 



1. Ocythoe tuberculatus. 



Animal elongate. Body oblong, smooth. Eyes large, prominent. 

 Arms unequal; in the following order, 1, 4, 2, 3 ; the dorsal pah- 

 elongate ; the second and third pairs without any internal 

 groove ; the third pair depressed their whole length. Si- 

 phuncle united to the base of the arms by a lateral mem- 

 brane. 



Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, Precis de Decouv. Somiol. 29. 



Ocythoe Argos Deshayes, Enc. Meth. iii. 643. 



Ocythoe antiquorum Leach, Zool. Miscel. iii. 139., Journ. de Phys. 



lxxxvi. 394. ; Blainv. Journ. de Phys. lxxxvi. 360. 434 — 447. 

 Ocythoe probatio Leach, Phil. Trans. 



Octopus antiquorum Blainv. Diet. Sc. Nat. xliii. 192. t. 1 bis, f. 1. 

 Octopus Argonauta Blainv. Malacol. 366. t. 1 bis, f. 1. 

 Octopus tuberculatus Blainv. Diet. Sc. Nat. xliii. 196. 

 ? Argonauta compressa Blainv. Diet. Sc. Nat. 212. 

 Argonauta Argo D'Orb. Paleont. univ. t. 1, 2. f. 1 — 5., Paleont. 



etrang. t. 1. t. 2. f. 1—5., Moll. Viv. et Foss. i. 226. t. 6 and 7. 



f. 1—5. 

 Hab. Mediterranean, Cape of Good Hope, Indian Ocean. 



a. Mediterranean. Adult, without shell. In spirits. Pre- 



sented by Rev. W. Hennah. 



b. Mediterranean. Junior, without shell. In spirits. Pre- 



sented by Rev. W. Hennah. 



c. Mediterranean. Adult, without shell. In spirits. Pre- 



sented by J. Bates, Esq., R. N. 



d. Mediterranean. Adult, without shell, with eggs. In 



spirits. Presented by W. E. Leach, M. D. 

 " Ocythoe probatio " Leach. 



