270 MOLLUSCA. 



Lolujo suhiilata, Fer. See Ball, in R. I. A. Proceedings, 1839, p. 364, 

 under L. media var. (?) January 10th, 1842. 



Jail/ Ifh, 1847. — Dr. R. Ball, writing to me from Bray, stated, "I have 

 just caught here the Lolitjo suhulata, identical with yours from Down; I 

 do not know whether on rigid examination it will prove a species distinct 

 from L. 7iie(Ua." L. suhulata, Lam., is made synonymous with Sepia 

 media, Linn., in Lam., vol. xi. 368. L. suhidata, Fer. and D' Orb., is not 

 referred to, though this vol. of Lamarck was published in 1845. 



" Specimens occasionally received from Dublin Harbour, Strangford 

 Lough, and other inlets." Templeton, MSS. (W. T. in A. N. H. vol. v. 

 p. 10.) 



L. rnarmorce, Verany. 



Taken in the sprat-nets in summer, at Youghal. Miss M. Ball. 



L. Eblan<e, Ball. 



3Iarch \Wi, 1845. — I received a specimen from Bangor; this, as well 

 as the Carrickfergus specimen, was much larger than that described by 

 Dr. Ball. Dublin, Dr. Ball. 



Doc. Gth, 1848. — -A specimen found on the beach, Holywood, Belfast 

 Bay, presented to the Museum. It is a beautiful fresh specimen, of a 

 pinkish flesh-colour, beautifully and regularly dotted over with minute 

 reddish-brown spots. Body from mouth to extremity 5 inches long. 



Genus Octopus. 

 O. vulgaris, Lam. Not uncommon. Temp. MSS. 

 [Probably the following species is meant. It. Ball.'] 



Genus Eledone. 

 . E. Octopodia, Penn. O. cirrhosus, Lam. 



Four procured in 1836, near the entrance of Lough Foyle, one in 1837, 

 and one near Carnlough, Sept., 1837, Ord. Sur. L. Derry, Notices, p. 15. 



Not unfrequent in Belfast Bay. Within a dead univalve shell, from 20 

 fathoms at the entrance of Belfast Bay (shelly sand), Oct. 3rd, 1846, by 

 Mr. Hyndman and Mr. E. Getty, who brought it to me alive. It lived 

 in sea-water for about two clays, and climbed up the sides of the glass 

 bottle in which it was kept with facility.* Cast on the shore at Youghal 

 in great numbers after a snow-storm in 1838. Sometimes brought in by 

 fishermen, who use them for bait ; called squid by them. Miss M. Ball, 

 West-port, Nov. 26th, 1843. R. Ball. 



Genus Sepiola. 

 S. Rondeletii, Risso. » 



Several obtained in Lough Foyle (Ord. Sur. L. Derry, Notices, p. 15), 

 Belfast Bay, Dunclrum, Newcastle. 

 S. Atlantica, D' Orb. 

 Bangor, Belfast Bay, Dr. Drummond. 



* This specimen was inside a Buccinum undatum when taken. The contents 

 of the trawl being emptied on the deck for examination, the cuttle-fish was ob- 

 served crawling out, but when an attempt was made to take it, it immediately 

 retreated inside its habitation, where it was'so completely concealed that it woidd 

 otherwise have escaped notice. — G. C. H. 



