i8 " WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 47. Sepia. 
Helicina. Body without fheath, and fpiral. 
Mart. Spit. p. 141. tab. Q. fig. c. 
Inhabits the North Seas in great numbers; fide of a ped, 
Wings ovate, obtufe, larger than the body, 1 
kittacina. Body without fheath, inverfely conic. 
* Natur. Mifcel. tab. 252. — Mart. Spit. tab. P. fig. 5. 
Inhabits the Northern Ocean; about half an inch long. 
Body pale whitifh-brown, refembling a Slag, a little contracted 
in the midddle and pointed at the end. 
4T. SEPIA. Body flefhy, receiving the breaft 
in a fheath, with a tubular aperture at 
its bafe: arms 8, befet with numerous 
warts or fuckers, and in moft fpecies 2 
peduriculated tentacula: head fhort: 
eyes large: mouth refembling a Parrot's 
beak. i Cutile-fifh. 
Thefe animals inhabit various feas, and in hot climates fome of 
them grow to a prodigious fize; they are armed with a dread- 
ful apparatus of holders furnifhed with fuckers, by which 
they faften upon and convey their prey to the mouth: they 
have the pewer of fquicting out a black fluid refembling ink, 
and which is faid to be an ingredient in the compofion of 
Indian-ink: the bone in the back is converted into that ufeful 
article of {tationary called pounce: the eggs are depofit-d upon 
fea-weed, and exactly refemble a bunch of grapes; at the in- 
ftant the female depofits them they are white, but the males 
foon país over them to impregnate them, and they then be- 
come black; they are round with a little point at the end, 
and in each of them 1s inclofed a living cuttle-fith furrounded 
by a gelatinous fluid, 
*Oaopus; Body without tail ot appendage : peduncülated tentacula or 
longer arms o. 
Natur. Mifcel. tab. 359. Barbut, tab. 8, fig. t. 
Scba. Muf. 3. tab. 2, fig. 1—6. Bel. aquat. tabs 331. 
Kelicut. dei. Petrop. 7. p. 321. tab. 11, 12. 
Pennant Brit. Zool. iv, tab, 28, fig. 44. Un 
Inhabits the Mediterranean and Indian Seas, in the latter of which 
it fometimes grows to a vait fize, the arms being 9 fathoms 
long. In thefe feas the Indians never venture out without 
hatchets in their boats, to cut off the arms, fhould it attempt 
to faflen upcn them and draw them under water. 
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