CUTTLE FISHES. 2Q 



In the accompanying illustrations, on pages 26 and 27, every 

 British species is figured except Rossia papillifera, which derives 

 its name from the crowd of small, whitish pimples with which it 

 is covered on the back of the mantle, the head, and the arm. This 

 species differs from macrosoma not only in the proportionate size 

 of the head, but in the greater stoutness of the body, and it is 

 almost the smallest of the British cuttles. Its length is about an 

 inch and three-quarters, that of Sepiola rondeleti being an inch and 

 a half or less. Rossia macrosoma, like Sepia biserialis, is three inches 

 long; Sepia elegans measuring four inches, and Loligo media five. 

 Octopus and Eledone may be averaged at six inches, and Loligo 

 vulgar Is at two feet, the other three species rarely exceeding a foot. 



