BRANCH MOLLUSCA. 



with two rows of sucking disks. Bawd's Octopus has 

 been captured several times off the New England coast. 



PIG. 72. 



(Jc'topus ml g,i ns. Devil lish, or Poulpe. 



A larger Pacific form is known to devour great quantities 

 of Acephalous Mollusks. 



The Cuttle-fish and Squids, the most active inverte- 

 brates, have, in addition to the eight arms, a pair of 

 longer arms, provided at their extremities only with 

 suckers.* 



* These monsters of the deep have furnished material for the novelist and 

 the painter. See Victor Hugo's " Toilers of the Sea," and Harper's Magazine, Vol. 

 XXI, page 185. Their accounts are greatly exaggerated. Mr. Beale, in his Natural 

 History of the Sperm-whale, describes a specimen of the so-called "Hock-squid," 

 not larger than his fist, but with arms expanding four feet. He grasped one of its 

 tentacles, but the cuttle-fish held to the rock with its suckers so strongly as to 

 resist all his strength. A sudden jerk exasperated the animal, which fixed its 



