depressedly convex, calcareous; its hinder aspect horny. Cloaca 
coalescing to the neck, almost as far as the base of the inferior 
legs. 
CEPHALOPODA. SEPIADZ. 9 
Genus 3. SrEpta. 
Myria, Aristotelis, Athenei, Oppiani, Se. 
Sepia, Plinii, Linné, Cuvier, Lamarck, §c. 
Pinne anguste, posticé non coalescentes. Pedes ordinarii 
inzequales : superiores breviores ; paria 2, 3, et 4 gradatim lon- 
giora. Pedes supplementarii ad apicem gradatim dilatati et 
acuminati. Antlie irregulariter disposite, omnes pedunculatze 
et annulis corneis inermibus instructe. Saccus subtus cum 
corpore non freenatus. 
Fins narrow, not coalescing behind. Gide y legs unequal : : 
the upper ones shortest; the second, third and cad pairs 
gradually longer. Supplementary legs gradually dilated at their 
extremities, and again acuminated at their points. Suckers 
irregularly disposed, all pedunculated, and furnished with un- 
armed horny rings. Sac not reined with the under part of the 
body. 
-]. SEPIA OFFICINALIS. 
S. cloaca posticé cum pedum inferiorum membrana connexa, 
annulis antliarum ad basin et apicem poe coarctatis. 
Sepia, Rondel. de Pisce. i. lib. vii. cap. 2. p. 498. 
Sepia officinalis, Linn. Syst. Nat. xu. i. 1195; Penn. Brit. 
Zool. iv. 53; Lam. Syst. des An. sans V. 59; Cuv. Reg. 
Anim. ii. 365. 
Officinal Cuttle, Penn. loc. cit. 
Habitat in mari, gregaria. 
Cloaca connected with the membrane of the lower feet, the 
rings of the suckers abruptly contracted at the extremities 
and bases. 
_ Colour pale flesh-red, freckled with purple ; the back spotted 
with brown. Legs internally without spots. The points in the 
back are smaller and more numerous than those on the lower 
aspect. Supplementary arms half as long again as the body. 
Length 1 to 14 foot. 
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