Class VJ. WORMS. 52 



Loligo, five Calamarus. Matthiol. in Dio/ccrid. 327. Loligo. 



Loligo magna. Rondel. 506. 43. Great. 



Le ^afTercn. Belon. aquat. 342. 



Sepia. Lin. Sy/l. 1096. No. 4. Seb.Muf. iii. tab, iv.fig, I, 2. 



/W/z. Suec. No. 2107. Borlafe Cornwall, tab. xx.fig. 27, 



S. with fhort arms and long teniacula -, the lower 

 part of the body rhomboid and pinnated, the upper 

 thick and cylindric. 



Inhabit all our feas ; are gregarious ; fwift 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 wifh to 

 be quiefcent, by means of the concave difcs that are 

 placed along their arms. 'Tab. xxvn.jig. 43. 



Le Pourpre. Belon. aquat. 336. OSlopodia. 



Polypi prima fpecies. Rondel. 513. 44. Eigkt- 



Sepia. Lin* Sjjl. ^©45. No, 1. Seb.Muf. nUteb. ii. fig. 1. armed. 



S. with a (hort round body, without fins or tenta- 

 cula -, with only eight arms \ connected at their 

 bottom by a membrane. This is the Polypus of 

 Pliny, which he diftinguifhes from the Loligo and 

 Sepia, by the want of tentacula. 



Inhabits our feas. In hot climates thefe are 

 found of an enormous fize. A friend of mine, 

 long refident among the Indian ifles, and a dili- 

 gent obferver of nature, informed me that the 

 natives affirm, that fame have been feen two fa- 

 it 3 thorns 



