SQUIDS, ETC. 



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FIG. 77. Pen 



of Sepia offi- 

 cinalis. 



weighing 2,000 pounds or more, and have 

 been known to attack boats. Each egg of 

 the Sepia is inclosed in a thick envelope 

 resembling India-rubber ; those of the Lo- 

 ligo in rows in a tough jelly, and glued to 

 the bottom in strings. 



VALUE. As codfish-bait. The sepia of the artist 

 comes from their ink-bags, and the cuttle-fish bone 

 of commerce is the pen of a certain species. The 

 pen of Sepia officinalis (Fig. 77) is made into pounce, 

 dentifrice, and polishing-powder. 



Eight-footed Cephalopods (Octopo- 

 da *). These, as well as the squids, are 

 commonly called devil-fishes. ' They live 



FIG. 78. Octopus punctatus, showing the relative size,and the position when 

 crawling on the bottom. From the Emerton model at Yale College. 



* A small one, speared by the author, lifted over twenty pounds of 

 coral when hauled in, throwing out ink that permeated the water in 

 all directions. In 1877 an Indian woman is said to have been drowned 

 by one at Vancouver Island. At Sitka the Octopus punctatus (Fig. 78} 

 is caught having, according to Dall, a total radial spread of nearly 

 twenty-eight feet. 



