Fic. 77.—Pen 
of Sepia offi- 
ctnalts, 
SQUIDS, ETC. 73 
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 Zo- 
digo in rows in a tough jelly, and glued to 
the bottom in strings. 
VaALuE.—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 (Ociopo- 
da*).—These, as well as the squids, are 
commonly called devil-fishes. They live 
Fic. 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. 
