OCTOPIDiE : CIRROTEUTHIS. 
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Poulpe cirrheux Montfort , Buff, de Sonnin. Moll. iii. 67. t. 33. 
Jctopus cirrhosus Lamck. Mem . Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris , i. 21. 
n. 3. t. 1. f. 2. a, b. ; Ferussac , D' Orb. Tab. Method . Ceph. 56. 
n. 2. ; Blainville , >Sc. iVhtf. xlvii. 191. 
Octopus ventricosus Grant , Edin. New Phil. Journ. 1827, p. 309. ; 
Bullet. ( Feruss . xii. 397. 1827.) 
Eledone cirrhosus D' Orb. et Feruss. Mon. Ceph. Acet. Eledons , 
t. 2. ; D’ Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos . i. 194. 
0a5. Coast of Britain and Europe. 
23. a. Berwick on Tweed. In spirits. Presented by 
Johnston, M.D. 
b. Dalmatia. In spirits. Purchased of Dr. Heckel. 
5. CIBBOTEUTHIS. 
Body round. Fins oblong, transverse, dorsal. Aperture very 
small, inferior. — Head small ; cervical band occupying three 
fourths of the circumference. Eyes small, lateral ventral, 
without eyelids. — Arms equal, conical, subulate, united to- 
gether by a thin funnel-shaped web, which is immediately at- 
tached to the arms at the base (as high as the fifth cup) and 
at the tip, but in the middle is united to the back of the arm 
by a thin skin, forming a kind of pouch. Cups in a single 
row, alternating with fleshy beards. — Siphuncle moderately long. 
Cirroteuthis Eschrich. Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xviii. 625. (1836, 1838); 
Desh. Lamck. Hist . ed. 2. xi. 234. 1 845. 
Cirrhoteuthis Moller , Ind. Moll. Groen. 4. ; Koryer , Naturk. Tidsk. 
iii. 98. iv. 77. ; U Orb. Moll. Viv. et Fos. i. 198. 1845; Gray , 
Proc. Zool . Soc. 1847, 205. n. 795. (not Chiroteuthis D'Orb.) 
Sciadephorus Reinh. Sf Prosch , Kong. Dansk. v. Selsk. Naturv. xii. 
1846. 
Sciadophorus. 1847, misprint, see Herrmann , 442. 
Bostrychoteuthis Agassiz, Nomenclat , 87. 
1. Cirroteuthis Mulleri. 
Body smooth, oblong, three dobed. Fins longer than broad, blunt, 
depressed. Eyes very small. Arms equal, quadrangular. Cups 
very small, oval, about thirty ; beards between the cups filiform. 
— Yiolet. 
Cirroteuthis Mulleri Eschrich. Nov. Act. Phys. Med. Acad. Cces. 
Leop. Nat. Cur. xviii. part 2. 625. t. 46, 47, 48. ; Desh . Lamck. 
Hist . xi. 234. 
Cirrhoteuthis Mulleri D' Orbigny, Moll. Viv. et Fos . i. ^98. t. 4. ; 
Moller , Ind. Moll. Groenl. 4. 
