m WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 47. Sepia. 



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Helidna. Body without fheath, and fpiral. 

 9 Mart. Spit. p. T41. tab. Q^ fig % e. 



Inhabits the North Secis in great number* ; fize af a pea. 

 Jf?//g-j ovate, obtufe, larger than the body. 



Vuhacina* Body without (heath, Inverfely conic. 



Natur. MifceL tab. 2$2. Mart. Spit, tab. ?.fg* 5. 

 Inhabits the Northern Ocean-, about half an inch long. 

 Body pale whitifh-brown, refembling a Slug, a little contracted 

 in the midddle and pointed at the end. 



47. SEPIA. Body flefiiy, receiving the breaft 

 in a ilicath, with a tubular aperture at 

 Its bafe : arms 8, befet with numerous 

 warts or fuckers, and in moft {pedes' 2 

 pedunculated tentacula: head fhort; 

 tyes large: mouth refemblin£ a Parrot's 

 beak* Cuttlc-fijli, 



Tbcfe animals inhabit various Teas, and in hot climates fome of 

 them grow to a prodigious fize ; they are armed with a dread- 

 ful apparatus of holders furnifhed with fuckers, by which 

 they faftcn upon and convey their prey to the mouth; theyv 

 have the pewer of fqulrting out a black fluid refembling ink, 

 and which is faid to be an ingredient in the compofion of 

 Indian -ink: the bone in the back is converted into that ufeful 

 article of itationary called pounce : the*£*j are depohVd upon 

 fea-weed, and exactly referable a bunch of grapes; at the in- 

 ftant the. female depofits them they arc white, but the males 

 foon pafs over them to impregnate them, and they then be- 

 come black ; they are round with a little point at the end* 

 and ih each of them is incloTed a living cuttle-ii/h furrounded 

 by a gelatinous fluid. 



lOSofusl Body without tail o» appendage : pedunculated tentacula or 

 longer arms o. 

 Natur. MifceL tab. 35.9. Barbttt, tab* ti.fig. i, 

 Seba. Muf. 3. tab. 2, fig. I — 6. Bebl. aquat. tab, 331. 

 Kcelreut. Aft. Pctrop. J. p. 32 1, tab. 1 1, I 2. 

 Pennant Brit. Zed. iv. tab. zS,fig. 44. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean and Indian Seas, in the latter of which 

 it fometimes grows to a vail fize, the arms being 9 fathoms 

 long. In theic feas the Indians never venture out without 

 hatchets in their boats, to cut off the arms, fhould it attempt 

 to faften upon them and draw them under water. 



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