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CALIFORNIA.] 



BOLITJ5NA. 121) 



E. ALDBOVANDI, Chiaje. PL 41. fig. (>9. 



Body oblong, smooth or minutely granulated ; arms elongate, 

 graceful. Reddish, nebulous, web not bordered with blue. No 

 musky odor. 



Total length. 400 mill. ; length of arms, 290 mill. ; of body, 

 90 mill. ; of head. 40 mill. 



Generally confounded with E. moschatus ; the differences of 

 the living animals disappearing in alcoholic specimens. 



Var. Genei, Yerany. PL 40, fig. fit. Differs but little from 

 the typical form ; the backs of the arms have a single series of 



red spots. 



Mediterranean. 



b. Ocular beards none ; arms unequal. 



E. ocTopODiA, Pennant. PL 41, figs. 70, 71. 



Body rounded, smooth or minutely granulated ; head scarcely 

 distinct from the body ; arms 1, 3, 2, 4 in relative length; cups 

 close together. Pale with small brown spots. 



Total length, 150 mill.; of body. 25 mill.; length of arms 

 1, 110 mill.; 8. 97 mill.. 2. 95 mill.; 4, 95 mill. 



Strom says it is called Suar by the Bergen folk, and that it 

 sticks so fast to fishes as to be often taken with them. Johnston* 

 says : " When at rest, this Octopod lies prone on the belly, the 

 arms spread out in front, with their extremities exposed in 

 spirals on the sides. It has in this position a considerable like- 

 ness to a toad ; and, often raising the back and head, its aspect 

 is really repulsive and threatening. It moves quickly, and 

 always retrograde, playing its arms in a regulated, graceful 

 manner, which no one can contemplate without wonder in a body 

 so grotesque and apparently so inapt for locomotion." 



Northern and Atlantic coasts of Europe. 



Genus BOLITJENA, Steenstrup. 



In the description of this genus no type is cited. In Wood- 

 ward and Keferstein a single living species is mentioned, but 

 without name. 



* Proc. Berw. N. H. Club, I, 198. 

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