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from a Fpoeiiiieii that came ashore at Bonavista Bay; that it 

 measured tliirty-two feet in leugth (probably the entire lengthy, 

 including more or less of the arms); and about six feet in circum- 

 ference. This jaw is large and broad, but much thinner t^ian 

 that of No. 1, and without the deep notch and angular lobe sees 

 in that specimen. It probably belongs to the Architeutliis dux 

 of Steenstrup, or at least to the same species as the jaw figured 

 by Dr. Packard. 



(5). A smaller specimen, captured in December, in Logic 

 Bay, about three miles from St. John, in herring nets. Qf this 

 I have a description in a letter to Dr. Djwson, from M. Harvey, 

 Esq., who has also published a brief account of it in the " Morn- 

 ing Chronicle," of St. John. The letter is acompanied by two 

 photographs of the specimen: one showing the entire body, some- 

 what mutilated anteriorlj^ ; the other showing the head with the 

 ten arms attached. The body of this specimen was over seven- 

 feet long, and between five and six feet in circumference ; the 

 caudal fin was twenty-two inches broad, but short, thick, and 

 emarginate posteriorly on each side, the end of the bod}^ being- 

 acute ; the two long tentacular-arms were twenty -four feet in 

 length, and two and a half inches in circumference, except at the 

 broader part near the end ; the tips slender and acute ; the largest 

 suckers 1-25 inch in diameter, with serrated edges; the eight 

 short arms were each six feet long ; the two largest were ten inches 

 in circumference at base; the others were 9, 8 and 7 inches. 

 These short arms taper to slender acute tips, and each bears • 

 about 100 large, bell-shaped suckers, with serrated margins. 

 Each of the long arms bears, about 160 suckers on the broad- 

 terminal portion, all of which are denticulated ; the largest ones,.- 

 which form two regular alternating rows, of twelve each, are 

 about an inch in diameter. There is also an outer rovv- of much 

 smaller suckers, alternating with the large ones, on each margin ; 

 the terminal part of these arms is thickly covered with small 

 suckers : and numerous similar small suckers are crowded on that' 

 portion of the arms where the enlargement begins, before the 

 commencement of the rows of large suckers. The arrangement 

 of the suckers is nearly the same as on the long arm of No. 2/ 

 but in the latter the terminal portion of the arm, beyond the 

 laro-e suckers, as shown in the photographs, is not so long, taper- 

 inc', and acute, but this may be due to the diiferent conditions 

 of the two specimens. It is probable that this was a young- 

 gpecimen of the same species as No. 2. 



