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irregular, oval, reddish blotches, each margined with a 

 dark colour. The circumference of the suckers is marked 

 with brown spots. The upper surface of the infundibulum 

 is covered with pale pink, rather scattered, and irregular 

 quadrate blotches, margined with a dark red-brown. The 

 mantle, on the dorsal surface, is densely sprinkled with 

 round and square spots of a chesnut-brown and crimson, of 

 different sizes. The velamenta are minutely punctulated 

 with crimson and red brown, and have a more bluish tinge 

 than those of A. hians. The under surface is mottled and 

 punctulated with dark chocolate on the arms, and on the 

 body, is marked with small, irregular, dark, red-brown spots. 

 In Argonauta hians, the body is more globose, and broader 

 from side to side, the head is much wider, and the ten- 

 tacles are narrower and more elongated. The suckers are 

 less elevated, smaller in comparison, and situated at a 

 greater distance from each other. The mantle is covered 

 with round spots and longitudinal linear markings, of a 

 bright crimson colour. The entire animal wants the 

 brown, dark appearance produced by the markings of 

 A. tuberculosa, and is of a lighter tinge and more delicate 

 appearance. 



The following Epigram of Callimachus on a Nautilus 

 which addresses Venus, on having been deposited by 

 Selene as a votive offering of maidenhood in her temple, 

 though often alluded to by writers on Natural History, 

 has not, so far as I am aware, been hitherto rendered 

 into English. My readers are indebted for the present 

 version to my brother, Mr. Ernest Adams, who informs 

 me that it was the custom of the Greek girls, on arriving 



