| THE 
EIGHT-ARMED CUTTLE-FISH. 
DEE EES 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Body flefhy, fheathing the breaft, which is fur- 
nifhed at its bafe with a tubular opening. 
Arms eight, (and in moft fpecies two peduncula- 
ted tentacula,) befet with numerous fuckers 
or acetabula. 
Head fhort; Eyes large; Mourh refembling a 
Parrot’s beak. | 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 
Short-bodied CUT'TLE-FISH, without any tail 
or appendage ; with eight arms and no ten- 
tacula or longer arms. 
The SEA POLYPUS. 
The eight-armed CUTTLE-FISH. 
| Penn. Br. Zool. 4. p. 44. pl. 28. 
The fize to which this animal fometimes grows is 
very great; but it is in the Indian and Northern feas _ 
that it feems to arrive at its fulleft magnitude. Mr. | 
Pennant tells us he has been well affured that in 
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