254 MOLLUSCA. CEPHALOPODA. Octopus. 



4>6, O. octojjodia.— Body rounded, smooth, mantle connect- 

 ed with the head behind ; suckers sessile, arranged in a sino-le 

 row. ° ° 



Sepia Oct. Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 53. t. xxviii. f. 44. 

 This species appears to have been confounded with the preceding. Pen- 

 nant states, that it inhabits our seas ; and Montagu is said, by Mr Sowerbv 

 to have communicated a specimen to him, probably from the coast of Devon. 



Dr Grant has obligingly communicated to me the following observations 

 on a recent, apparently fuU grown specimen from the Frith of Forth nre 

 sented to him by Mr John Coldstream. Length of the body U nches of the" 

 head 2 mches; breadth of the body 34 inchef; arms 12 inches long, webbed 



Siforn. 's'' l^^ u '^^.''''^'^ '""'^^'^ compressed, strong, the extremities 

 filiform. Suckers becoming larger to the sixth, and then cUminishincr to- 

 wards the extremity, with a broad muscular margin; about 111 can be 

 counted, with the aid of a lens, on each arm. Eyes%e;y small, with a sub! 

 dorsal aspect, and near covered with distinct eyeUds, and having the his 



s:^. i^ir^nis^-"' ---'' ''''^^'''- ^^^^ ^p— ^-- ^^ 



• T.?^ ^i^f^''} 'Pf "*"' °^ Sf PiaJse secrete an inky fluid, differmg, however 

 purteS lapture^^' '''''''^' '' ^'^ ^P^^^' ''''^' ^^^^^ ^^^^ "1- ^^^^ 



The collection of Mr Miller of Bristol is said to contain a specimen, from 

 the Lias, resembhng the back of one of the Sepiadte.-Geol. Eng. and Wales, 



