Class VI. SEPIA. CUTTLE. 117 



two long tentacula; the body almost transpa- 

 rent ; green, but convertible into a dirty brown, 

 confirming the remark of Pliny* that they 

 change their color through fear, adapting it, 

 Chameleon like, to that of the place they are in. 

 The eyes are large and smaragdine. Tab. 

 xxxi. Jig. 1 . 



S. Lin. Syst. IO96. Gm. Lin. 3151. Sepiola. Rondel. 5 19. 4. Sepiola. 



Small. 



S. with a short body, rounded at the bottom ; a 

 round fin on each side ; two tentacula. 

 Taken oif Flintshire. Tab. xxxi. Jig. 2. 



La Seiche. Belnn aquat. 338. S. officinalis. Lin. Syst. \QQ5. 5. Offici- 



Matthiol. in Dioscorid. 326. Gm. Lin.3\4?Q. J^" s - 



OJjicinal. 

 Sepia. Rondel. 433. Faun. Suec. No. 2706. Amosn. 



Seb. Mus. iii. tab. iii. Jig. 1, Acad. 



2. 



S. with an ovated body ; fins along the whole 

 of the sides, and almost meeting at the bottom ; 

 two long tent acuta; the body contains the bone, 

 the cuttle-bone of the shops, which was formerly 

 used as an absorbent. 



The bones are frequently flung on all our 

 shores ; the animal very rarely. 



* Lib. ix. c. 2Q. 



