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by the attraction of a light. They will devour fishes that are 

 left for a time dead in a net; and are themselves excellent food 

 bearing a considerable resemblance to tripe. 



SQUID. L. Media. Fleming's Br. An., p. 253. Pennant, 



pi. 29. fiir. 45. Abundant, but rarer in winter. 

 SMALL WINGED CUTTLE. L. Sepiola. Fleming's Br. 

 An., p. 253. Pennant, pi. 29. fig. 46. 



I have seen only one specimen, which 1 took from the sto- 

 mach of a Whiting ; and this differed from Pennant's figure 

 in having the hinder margin of the fins opposite the middle of 

 the body, whereas in the plate referred to, they are placed far 

 behind. 



GENUS OCTOPUS: Creeping Cuttle. 



NEGUER. 0. Vulgaris. Fleming's Br. An., p. 253. The 

 figure in Pennant, pi. 28. fig. 44, well represents this species, 

 except that in this the suckers are in a double row. Com- 

 mon. It is scarcely capable of swimming; but it is a com- 

 mon amusement of boys to cause it to climb up the ascent 

 of a pole or mast. 



RADIATED ANIMALS. 



With organs regularly branched from a common centre. 

 G i:\US ECHINUS: Sea Eggs. 

 SEA EGG. SEA HOG. E. Esculentus. Fleming's Br. An. 



p. 478. Pennant, vol. 4, pi. 34. fig. 74, without the spines. 



Common. 



Motion is effected by suckers at the end of tendrils, the spines 

 acting as levers or crutches; and so firmly will the disks ad- 

 here, that they are sometimes torn off in removing it from its 

 station on the rock. Slow in motion and without any apparent 

 organ of sense, this creature will enter the crabpot and mount 

 over the rods on the inner side, to the bait, placed as it is in 

 a seemingly inaccessible situation 

 GENUS SPATANGUS: Sand Eggs. 

 SAND EGG. S. Lordatus. Fleming's Br. An., p. 480. 



PeDnant, pi. 3. fig. 75. Local, but in some sandy places 



common. It burrows by means of the lesser spines, and 



then covers itself by the aid of the long ones on the back ; 



which thus have a very different office from those of the 



Genus Echinus. 

 OVAL SAND EGG. S. Ovatus. Fleming's Br. An., p. 



480. Less common. 

 GENUS ECHINOCYAMUS: Flat Sand eggs. 

 LITTLE SAND EGG. E. Pusillus. Fleming's Br. An., 



p. 481. Borlase's Nat. Hist. Corn., pi. 28, fig. 26. 



