Class VI. SEPIA. CUTTLE. 115 



GENUS XXX. SEPIA. CUTTLE. 



Arms eight, placed round the mouth, with small 



concave discs on their insides. 

 Tentacula often two, long. 

 Mouth, formed like a horny beak. 

 Eyes, placed beneath the tentacula. 

 Body fleshy, a sheath for the breast. 

 Tube at the base of the last. 



Loligo, sive Calamarus. Mat- Sel. Mus. iii. tab. iv. Jig. 1, j. Loligo. 



thiol, in Dioscorid. 32?. 2. Great. 



Loligo magna. Rondel. 506. Faun. Suec. No. 2107. 



Le Casseron. Belon aquat. Borlase Cornwall, tab. xx. 



342. Jig. 27. 

 Sepia. Lin. Syst. IO96. No. 



4. Gm. Lin. 3150. 



S. with short arms and long tentacula ; the lower 

 part of the body rhomboid and pinnated, the up- 

 per thick and cylindric. 



Inhabit all our seas ; are gregarious ; swift 

 in their motions ; take their prey by means of 

 their arms ; and embracing it, bring it to their 

 central mouth. Adhere to the rocks, when 

 they wish to be quiescent, by means of the con- 

 cave discs that are placed along their arms. 



Tab. xxix. 



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