WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 47. Sepfa. 
Body 'without fheath, and fpiial. 
Mari. Spit. p. 1 41. tab. fig, e. 
Inhabits the North Seas in great numbers j fize of a pea. 
Wings ovate, obtufe, larger than the body. 
Body without fheath, inverfely cohIc. 
Naitir. Mifcel. tab. 252. Mart. Spit. tab. P./y. 5. 
Inhabits the Northern Ocean; about half an itieh long. 
Ao-fypale whitiih-brown, refembling a Slug, a little contrafl^® 
in the midddle and pointed at the end. 
47. ^IbPIA. Body fleiiiy, I’cceiving tlid breafl- 
in a flieatli, with a tubular aperture 
its bafe : arms 8, befet with numei'Oii^ 
warts or fuckers, and in moft fpecies ^ 
})edunculated tentacula: head Ihoif' 
eye.<: lai-ge : mouth refembling a Parrot’^* 
i>eaki Cuttle-jifi' 
l^hefe animals inhabit t-arlous feus, and in hot climates fam^ 
them grow to a prodigious fizc ; they are armed with a dre»‘*' 
ful apparatus of holders furniflied with fuckers, by wbit^’ 
they fallen upon and convey their prey to the mouth: they 
have the pewer of fquirting out a black fluid refembling i^h 
and whicli is faid to be an ingredient in the compoflon 
Fudian-ink: the bone in the back is converted fnto that 
article of llationary called pounce : cherg;^^ aie dcpolic d upo** 
fea-wced, and exadiy lefeiuble a bunch of grapes ; at the 
(lant the female depoflts them they arc white, but the 
foon pafs over them to impregnate them, and they then be' 
come black , they are round with a little point at the 
and in each of them fs inciofed a living cuttle-hih furround^** 
by a gelatinous fluiclt 
Body without tail or appendage : pedunculated tentacult* 
longer arms o. ■ ' ' 
Katur. Mifcel. tab. 359. Barhut, tab, S,fg, l, 
Seba. Muf. 3. tab. z,/ig. I — 6. BeU. ajuat. tab. 331. 
Ka’lreaf. dii. Petrop. 7. p. 321. tab. 11,12. 
PemaJit Brit. Zocl. iv. tab, zS, fig. _ , 
Inhabits the Mediterranean and Indian Seas, in the latter of whi^^ 
it fometimes grows to a vaft fizc, the arms being 9 fatho'’’* 
long. In thelc feas the Indians never venture out witb®‘’^ 
l;atchetj,in their boats, to cut off the arms, fliould it attehip 
to fallen upon them and draw them under water. 
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