\:\-2 PARASIRA. HAU1MIKON. 



head Mini six small ones near each eye; arms elongated, order of 



length -2. 1. :>. 4. two dorsal pairs tlattened and webbed to their 

 tips. 



Total length. :!:> mill.: length of body. (';") mill.; length of 

 arms _>. _>:: mill.: 1. 1 : mill.: :!. l: 1 , mill.: 4. l:Jmill. 



Genus PARASIRA, St< 



P. CATENULATA, Fer. PL 4.'.. tigs. 95-98. 



llody very large. oval, smooth above, reticulate and t uberculatc 

 In-low ; aperture large: head very short, scarcely distinct; in- 

 ferior aquiferous apert nres t wo ; arms graceful, order of length 

 1. 4, -2. :i : scarcely weMted. 



Total length. 7f> mill.: leimlh of l.ody. *>> mill.; length of 

 arms 1. ."><) mill.; 4. 4:; mill.; -2. 4'2 mill.; :-J. :-JU mill. 



The tlesh of this mollnsk is touirh and unwholesome, and for 

 these reasons is not sold in the markets. The Genoese fishermen 

 make of the skin of the body a sort of CM]), whereof the reticu- 

 lations serve as ornaments. It is called Pulpu sepia in Sardinia 

 and I'onpressa at Nice. 



Steenstrnp (Vidensk Meddel.. :',:{-2. ISC.D) considers this the 

 female of the next species, but more recent authors separate them. 



Mediterranean. 



P. CAIIKN.K. Verany. PL 45, fig. ( .M). 



llody ronnde(l. acuminate behind, smooth ; liead short: arms 

 very unequal, order of length 4. 1. '2. :>. with thirty to fifty 

 suckei-> : two M<iuiferous pores at the bases of the fourth pair of 

 Mrms. Mrditcrnnn'-an. 



TI I'.KUCI LATA. R:if. The author expressly declares 

 that this is not tin- animal of the Argonaut, as supposed by 

 Leach, (ii-ay and others. It is like Octopus, and weighs fifteen 

 pounds. The two superior anus are winged ( IJinney A: Tryon's 

 Pvalinesqiie. p. ( .4). It may be founded on T. riolaceus or a 

 species. Mediterranean. 



Genus HALIPHRON, Sti--nstrup. 



hex-ribed from a siimlc arm found in the stomach of a shark. 

 \M species charaderi/ed. 



