THE 
EIGHT-ARMED CUTTLE-FISH. 
Generic Character. 
Body fiefhy, fheathing the bread:, which is fur- 
nifhed at its bafe with a tubular opening. 
Arms eight, (and in moft fpecies two peduncula¬ 
ted tentacula,) befet with numerous fuckers 
or acetabula. 
Head fhort; Eyes large; Mouth refembling a 
Parrot’s beak. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Short-bodied CUTTLE-FISH, without any tail 
or appendage ; with eight arms and no ten¬ 
tacula or longer arms. 
The SEA POLYPUS. 
The eight-armed CUTTLE-FISH. 
Penn 1 . Br. ZooL 4. p. 44 - pi- 28. 
The fize to which this animal fometimes grows is 
very great; but it is in the Indian and Northern feas 
that it feems to arrive at its fulleft magnitude. Mr. 
Pennant tells us he has been well allured that in 
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