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MOLLUSCA. 
* CEPHALA. 
Cuass. CEPHALOPODA, Cuvier. 
Orper. DIBRANCHIATA, Owen. 
Faminy. Octopopipa, Gray. 
1. ELEDONE, Leach. 
1, E. ventricosa, Grant. 
Sepia octopoda, Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 53, t. 28, f. 44. 
Octopus ventricosus, Johns. in Berw. Club Proc. i. 197. 
Not uncommon. We once met with it thrown up in great 
abundance on Whitley sands.—A. H. 
Dr. Johnston has given an excellent description of this spe- 
cies in the Berwickshire Club Proceedings. 
Faminy. Seprapa, D’Orbigny. 
2. SEPIOLA, Leach. 
1h tsb RONDELETII, Leach. 
Sepia sepiola, Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 54, t. 29, f. 46. 
Sepiola vulgaris, Johns. in Berw. C. Proc. i. 199. 
Rather rare. Occasionally found in the stomachs of haddocks. 
“Not unfrequently caught in the shrimp nets at Seaton.”— 
Mr. Hogg. 
We have only once met with the spawn of this species. Ob- 
serving some capsules separately attached by short footstalks to 
a stone, brought in by the fishermen at Cullercoats, we carefully 
detached them with a penknife, and placed them in a phial of 
sea water. On taking a magnifier to examine our capture, we 
found several little Sepiole swimming briskly through the water 
in all directions, and the capsules lying empty at the bottom of 
the phial. The little creatures appeared to be of a blueish white; 
but, on looking again, about a minute afterwards, we found that 
