PLATE II 



Fig. i. Deformed lower jaw, heavily infested the length of the tooth 

 row with Conchoderma auritum. Whale F153, sperm $, 10-4 m., 

 at Horta, 17 June 1952. Photo: Constantino de Freitas Amoral. 



Fig. 2. A giant squid, Architeuthis sp., recovered intact from the 

 stomach of a sperm whale. In standard length as shown the squid 

 measured 4-96 m., the tentacles extending outside the picture to 

 complete a total length of 10-49 m - From whale F346, sperm J, 

 14-3 m., at Horta, 4 July 1955. 



Fig. 3. Stomach contents of whale F8, sperm 0, ii-om., at Horta, 

 21 July 1949. (See also Fig. 6.) Two specimens of Histioteuthis 

 bonelliana lie near the metre rule ; the large squids towards the right 

 are heads and bodies of Cucioteuthis unguiculatus. There are also 

 present the remains of a barracuda (Sphyraena sp.), two similar 

 fishes, and a jellyfish. 



Fig. 4. A young basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), <y, 2-50 m. long, 

 recovered intact from the stomach of a sperm whale, ,J, 14-4 m., 

 at Horta, 10 February 1956. Photo: B. L. Collins. 



Fig. 5. The flukes, showing the hind margin irregularly scalloped as 

 a result of damage by an unknown agency, possibly fishes. Whale 

 F30, sperm J, 13-6 m., at Horta, 16 August 1949. 



Fig. 6. Stomach contents, a detail from Fig. 3. The two pale squids, 

 spotted with black photophores, are Histioteuthis bonelliana. Above 

 and below them are the heads-and-arms of Cucioteuthis unguiculatus. 



Fig. 7. Stomach contents of whale F18, sperm ?, 11-3 m., at Horta, 

 1 August 1949. The large, pigmented squid, with wide, extensive 

 and circular fin, is a complete specimen of Cucioteuthis ungui- 

 culatus. A white bulge of viscera protrudes through a tear in the 

 mantle. The smaller, pale squid is Tetronychoteuthis dussumierii. 



Fig. 8. A bathypelagic angler fish, Himantolophus groenlandicus, 

 39-8 cm. in total length, from the stomach of whale F262, sperm (J, 

 120 m., at Horta, 18 June 1954 (see Table 14, p. 260). Note the 

 lure and the limpet-like dermal spines. Photo: P. M. David. 



