-KIM A. | 



*ic to tl. .in the extremity tn (In- n|>|><r edge 



if the mantle nine inches ; thickncx* of the body lying in a plate nearly 

 MX indies ; (liar; the liii'_'<*t sucker nine inches; weight twentv 



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'J'lif singular hum. tin- arrangement and proportion of the lill< 

 <>f this animal, will ! much better understood from inspecting the 

 than iViiin any description. Among the most pronii: .run- 



. \vo projecting '-yes or golden orbit.*, immediately above the margin 

 of the sac ; a wide mouth, spreading upwards, with eiirht tcntaculn sur- 

 rounding it ; and a row of hard suckers clothing each of these from the 

 rout ti tin- extremity. T<>\\ard> tin- left side a tubular orpin issues from 

 within the sac. 



On the aide of the roc a narrow marginal (in is seen, in come M 

 metis, as if dividing the l>;u-k and belly. 



The mouth of the animal is situate in the centre of the tentacula, 

 the suckers of which consist of about sixty or seventy in adults of 

 nn-lium size. Prolialily their number and dimensions augment with 

 age. But the row is Miiuie, though some naturalists, misled by that >n 



ion of the parts concomitant <>n weakness or death, have axcrilN-d 

 two to the tentaculum. Then they are in a kind of alternate arm 

 inent. 



The predominant colour of this species is reddLh-lrown, brighter or 

 paler above ; whitish below ; the eyet black ; the suckers white. 



But nothing can be more variable or readier to delude the tran 

 observer than the colour. Sometimes the body is almost of a uniform 

 reddish hue, which quickly breaks into patches of different intensity, 

 and is suddenly intenniiiL'led with white ; next it becomes speckled, or 



s again, then fading in cloudy evanescence. 



These variation- apparently result either from spasmodic affections, 

 dependent on the health, or strength, or volition of the animal. After a 



men became motionless, pale, and to all appearance dead, a beautiful 

 iridescence was displayed by the edges of the web, faint-brown spread 



the back, and part nf the tentaculn, on being transferred to recent 

 nea-water. All these faded again. N- \; n transference to spirit of 



