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St. Vincent, Cape Verde Is., purchased by the Rey. C. 8. Eveleigh ; one 
specimen, ? [1438]. 
Previous records.—Mediterranean ; Red Sea: Indo-Malayan Region ; 
Japan; Australia ; Teneriffe. 
The largest specimen (1093) has a large ovate pinkish body, smooth except 
for a slight wrinkling, without any warts or cirri. It has the enlarged 
suckers on the dorsal arms, but the arms are distinctly shorter in proportion 
to the body than indicated by d’Orbigny’s description and figures. The 
actual measurements are :— 
emetheommmamtles, .'.... cee nemercmeee eset Tan. 11 em. 
emounoteursijyarm ........ eee Right 53 em. Left 51 em. 
Length of second arm......... eam) OU) 
Kenothvot third arm ./....5: yy ate) aa oe 
Length of fourth arm ......... oy Oe 0 Oo 
The smallest specimen (1080) agrees in all essentials with the larger, and 
is certainly the young of the same species. 
Specimen 1438 appears to be referable to this species, but it is in a very 
unsatisfactory state of preservation and the label states that it was partly 
decayed when obtained, 
PoLypus HoRRIDUS (d’ Orbigny). 
Octopus horridus, VOrbigny, 1826, p. 54; Férussac & d’Orbigny, 1835, p. 51, pl. 7. fig. 3. 
Polypus horridus, Hoyle, 1904, p. 194, pl. 2. figs. 10, 15 [entered by error as P. aculeatus | ; 
Id. 1905, p. 978; Id. 1907, p. 454. 
Localities—Suez, low tide, December 1904; one specimen, ¢ [1078] ; 
mud flats, January 1905, collected by J. Logan, two young specimens, ? 
[ 1084, 1085], one ¢ [1083]. 
Khor Dongola, among coral from reef, three young specimens, ? [1086- 
1088], one sex ? [1089]; taken from the crevice of a coral in breaking it up, 
one young specimen, ? [1079]. 
Suakim Harbour, one specimen, 9 [1090]. 
Previous records—Red Sea, Egyptian shore (@’Orbigny) ; Cape of Good 
Hope (Arauss) ; Ceylon (Hoyle) ; Male Atoll (//oyle) ; Zanzibar (Hoyle). 
Specimen 1078 shows enlarged suckers near the base of the fourth arm on 
the right side, and of the third and fourth arms on the left ; this example is 
recorded as having been * greenish, with a papillate skin” when fresh. 
Specimen 1079 is flaccid and looks as though it had been preserved in 
formol after death; the pale patches are indistinct ; the body is an elongated 
ovoid, contrasting with the short stumpy form of most other examples. 
Specimens 1087 and 1088 are very dark in colour, the paler areole being 
searcely distinguishable. 
Specimen 1089 has the tissues swollen and subgelatinous, as though 
distended with fluid. It is very dark in colour, almost melanotic, and hence 
