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3rd. — The Eledone, described as having only- 

 one row of suckers upon very long arms. It is 

 referred by Professor Owen to the Eledone cirrhosa 

 of Leach. The Eledone macropodia, a Greek 

 species, is probably the animal referred to by 

 Aristotle. 



4th. — The " bolitane or ozolis," an Octopus, 

 distinguished by its musky smell. This has been 

 referred to the Eledone moscliata of authors ; bat 

 Aristotle distinctly affirms that only one of his 

 kinds of polypus (the third), had the suckers on 

 the arms arranged in a single row. The Octopus 

 vulgaris as well as the Eledone moschata gives out, 

 at times, a musky odour, and it is possible that 

 such odoriferous specimens were regarded as 

 examples of a distinct species. 



Among the cuttle-fishes without shells no 

 mention is made of the Sepiola, an animal 

 sufficiently frequent in the iEgean to render it 

 improbable that it escaped the notice of Aristotle. 

 It is by no means clear that his little calamary was 

 a true Loligo ; and when (in the fourth book) he 

 states that the fins of the little twOiq differed from 

 those of the great species, (clearly the Loligo) inso- 

 much as they did not surround the body, such a 

 character will not apply to any true calamary, but 



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