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LoLiGO^ or the Quid Cuttle-fish, has broad fins at the end 

 of a cyhnder-shaped body ; it has a long internal pen, and 

 produces a jet-black Hquid, commonly called ink. 

 L. vulgaris is about a foot and a half in length. It has 

 eight short thick arms,, and two long tentacular arms, 

 which are spread at the end, and Hned with suckers ; 

 its fins are long. 

 L. media and L. marmorce have a narrow spotted body, with 

 short fins, tapering off before reaching the pointed 

 extremity of the body. The animals are about three 

 inches long. 

 Omastrephes sagittatus, 0. Todarus, and 0. Eblana very 

 much resemble species of the genus Loligo, but the fins 

 make a semicircular termination to the body. They are 

 called Mying Squids by fishermen. 



Family SEP I AD -^. 



Sepia. — As only the internal bone of Sepia hiserialis has 

 yet been found, S, officinalis is the only remaining cuttle-fish 

 of the British seas which we shall have to speak of. And 

 it is one with which we are familiar, not indeed from any 

 general knowledge of the animals of this class, but simply 

 from the internal skeleton of soft bone, so often sold in our 



