100 THE NAUTILUS. 



agrees well with the form of the Sepiola. More- 

 over, in the Aristotelian sense of species, a dis- 

 tinction would scarcely have been drawn between 

 two forms of calamary, the species of which are 

 very difficult to distinguish, so strong as that 

 drawn in the history of animals between the 

 greater and lesser teuthis. 



The Octopus, the Eledone, the Sepia, the 

 Sepiola, and the Loligo, all occur on the coasts 

 of Asia Minor. 



The Argonaut, which is one of the two kinds 

 of inaXay^ia with shells, is either very rare or 

 does not range to that coast. It is well known, 

 however, in the bays of the mainland of 

 Greece. In describing it Aristotle for once 

 appears to have given way to popular report, and 

 not made use of his own observations. His 

 second kind of polypus inhabiting a shell, " oiov 

 KoyXlag" and attached to it like the animal of an 

 ordinary univalve, has been regarded as the 

 Nautilus pompilius. But that remarkable mol- 

 lusk does not live in the Mediterranean, and 

 considering the extreme rarity of the opportu- 

 nities, even now, of observing it alive in its 

 native sea, — the Indian Ocean, — we can scarcely 

 suppose that it could have come under Aristotle's 



