132 PARASIRA, HALIPHRON. 



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

 length 2, 1, 3, 4, two dorsal pairs flattened and webbed to their 

 tips. 



Total length, 33 mill. ; length of body, t>'5 mill. ; length of 

 arms 2. 23 mill. ; 1, 15 mill. ; 3. 13 mill. ; 4. 13 mill. 



Mediterranean. 

 Genus PARASIRA, Steenstrup. 



P. CATENULATA, Fer. PL 45, figs. 95-98. 



Body very large, oval, smooth above, reticulate and tuberculate 

 below ; aperture large ; head very short, scarcely distinct ; in- 

 ferior aquiferous apertures two ; arms graceful, order of length 

 1, 4, 2, 3 ; scarcely webbed. 



Total length, 75 mill.; length of body, 22 mill.; length of 

 arms 1, 50 mill. ; 4, 43 mill. ; 2, 42 mill. ; 3. 39 mill. 



The flesh of this mollusk is tough 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 cap. whereof the reticu- 

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

 and Poupressa at Nice. 



Steenstrup (Yidensk Meddel., 332, 1800) considers this the 

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



Mediterranean. 



P. CAREN.E, Yerany. PL 45, fig. 99. 



Body rounded, acuminate behind, smooth ; head short ; arms 

 very unequal, order of length 4. 1. 2. 3. with thirty to fifty 

 suckers; two aquiferous pores at the bases of the fourth pair of 

 'inns. . Mediterranean. 



OCYTIIOE TUBERCULATA, Raf. The author expressly declares 

 that this is not the animal of the Argonaut, as supposed bv 

 Leach, (ir.My and others. It is like Octopus, and weighs fifteen 

 pounds. The two superior arms are winged ( Binney <fc Tryon's 

 Rafinesque, p. 94). It may be founded on T. violaceus or a 

 similar species. Mediterranean. 



Genus HALIPHRON, Steenstrup. 



Described from a single arm found in the stomach of a shark. 

 No species characterized. 



