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12. Turtles ; the various kinds of turtles, and how they are caught 377 
13. Who first invented the art of cutting tortoise-shell .. . . 379 
14. Distribution of aquatic animals into various speoies ib, 
15. Those which are covered with hair, or have none, and how they 
bring forth. Sea-calves, or phocaB 380 
16. How many kinds of fish there are 381 
17. Which of the fishes are of the largest size 382 
18. Tunnies, cordyla, and pelamides, and the various parts of them 
that are salted. Melandrya, apolexiti, and cybia 385 
19. The aurias and the scomber 386 
20. Fishes which are never found in the Euxine ; those which enter 
it and return • • 387 
21. Why fishes leap above the surface of the water 390 
22. That auguries are derived from fishes 391 
23. What kinds of fishes have no males . . ib. 
24. Fishes which have a stone in the head ; those which keep them- 
selves concealed during winter ; and those which are not taken 
in winter, except upon stated days 892 
25. Fishes which conceal themselves during the summer ; those which 
are influenced by the stars 396 
26. The mullet 397 
27. The acipenser 398 
28. The lupus, the asellus 399 
29. The scarus, the mustela 400 
30. The various kinds of mullets, and the sargus that attends them.. 401 
31. Enormous prices of some fish 403 
32. That the same kinds are not everywhere equally esteemed . . . . 404 
33. Gills and scales , . 405 
34. Fishes which have a voice. — Fishes without gills 406 
35. Fishes which come on land ; the proper time for catching fish . . ib. 
36. Classification of fishes, according to the shape of the body . . . . 407 
37. The fins of fish, and their mode of swimming 408 
38. Eels 409 
39. The murena ib. 
40. Various kinds of flat fish . . . . 411 
41. The echeneis, and its uses in enchantments ..412 
42. Fishes which change their colour 414 
43. Fishes which fly above the water — the sea-swallow — the fish that 
shines in the night — the horned fish — the sea-dragon . . . . 415 
44. Fishes which have no blood. — Fishes known as soft fish . . . . 416 
45. The saepia^ the loligo, the scallop 417 
46. The polypus ib. 
47. The nautilus, or sailing polypus 419 
48. The various kinds of polypi ; their shrewdness ib. 
49. The sailing nauplius 422 • 
50. Sea-animals which are enclosed with a crust ; the cray-fish . . 423 
51. The various kinds of crabs ; the pinnotheres, the sea urchin, 
cockles, and scallops 424 
52. Various kinds of shell-fish . . . . 428 
53. What numerous appliances of luxury are found in the sea . . . . 429 
