[17] CEPHALOPODS OF NORTHEASTERN COAST OF AMERICA. 
off. From the commencement of the large suckers to the tip it meas¬ 
ures 9.25 inches. It had lost most of its suckers, so that it cannot be 
identified with certainty. Part of the large suckers and some of the 
marginal ones still remain, though the homy rings are gone. Diameter 
of large suckers, .50 of an inch ; of marginal ones, about .12 of an inch. 
The suckers have the same form and arrangement as in the larger spec¬ 
imens of Arehiteuthis. It may have belonged to a young A. Harreyi. 
Xo. 21.— Cape Sable specimen. ( Sthenoteuthis megaptera V.) 
Plate XVI. 
This specimen was found thrown on the shore, near Cape Sable, Xova 
Scotia, after the very severe gale in which the steamer “ City of Boston” 
was lost several years ago. It is preserved in alcohol, entire and in 
good condition, in the Provincial Museum at Halifax, where it is well 
exhibited in a large glass jar. It is the type-specimen of Arehiteuthis 
megaptera, described by me, September, 1878.* It is a comparatively 
small species, its total length being but 43 inches; its head and body 
together, 19 inches; body alone, 14 inches; its tentacular arms, 22 and 
24 inches ; short arms, from G.5 to 8.5 inches; tail-fin, 13.5 inches broad 
and G inches long. 
This species differs widely from all the others in the relatively enor¬ 
mous size and breadth of its caudal fin, which is nearly as broad as the 
body is long, and more than twice as broad as long. It has been made 
the type of a new generic group. 
Xo. 22.— Brigus specimen, 1879. 
Mr. Harvey states that portions of another large squid were cast ashore 
near. Brigus, Conception Bay, in October, 1879. 
Two of the short arms, each measuring 8 feet in length, were found 
with other mutilated parts, alter a storm. 
Xo. 23.— James’s Cove specimen, 1879. 
From Mr. Harvey I have also very recently received an account of 
another specimen, which was captured entire, about the first of Xoveni- 
ber 1879, at James’s Cove, Bonavista Bay, Xewfoundland. It seems to 
have been a fine and complete specimen, about the size of the Catalina 
Bay specimen (Xo. 14). Unfortunately, the fishermen, as usual, indulged 
immediately in their propensity to cut and destroy, and it is doubtful if 
any portion was preserved. The account referred to was published in 
the Morning Chronicle of Saint John’s, Newfoundland, December 9,1879, 
and was credited to the Harbor Grace Standard. The author of the 
article is not given. The following extract contains all that is essential: 
U A friend at Musgrave Town sends us the following particulars relative 
to the capture of a big squid at James’s Cove, Goose Bay, about a month 
* American Journal of Science, xvi, p. 207, 1878. 
