REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [ 16 ] 
out with the tide. It was a happy thought, for the devil-fish found 
himself effectually moored to the shore. His struggles were terrific as 
he flung his ten arms about in dying agony. The fishermen took care 
to keep a respectful distance from the long tentacles, which ever and 
anon darted out like great tongues from the central mass. At length 
it became exhausted, and as the water receded it expired. 
‘•The fishermen, alas! knowing no better, proceeded to convert it 
into dog’s meat. It was a splendid specimen—the largest yet taken— 
the body measuring 20 feet from the beak to the extremity of the tail. 
It was thus exactly double the size of the New York specimen [Xo. 11], 
and 5 feet longer than the one taken by Budgell. The circumference 
of the body is not stated, but one of the arms measured 35 feet. This 
must have been a tentacle.” 
Xo. 10.— Three Arms specimen, 1S78. (Arehiteuthk jnrinceps?) 
Mr. Harvey has also given an account of this specimen in the same 
letter to the Boston Traveller, referred to under Xo. 18. This one was 
found east ashore, after a heavy gale of wind, December 2. 1878, by Mr. 
William Budgell, a fisherman, residing at a place called Three Arms, 
on the south arm of Xotre Dame Bay. It was dead when found, and 
was cutup and used for dog-meat. Mr. Harvey’s account is as follows: 
“ My informant, a very intelligent person, who was on a visit in that 
quarter on business, arrived at Budgell’s house soon after he had 
brought it home in a mutilated state, and carefully measured some por¬ 
tions with his own hand. He found that the body measured 15 feet 
from the beak to the end of the tail, which is 5 feet longer than the 
Xew York specimen. The circumference of the body at its thickest 
part was 12 feet. He found only one of the short arms perfect, which 
was 16 feet in length, being 5 feet longer than a similar arm of the 
Xew York specimen, and he describes it as ‘thicker than a man’s 
thigh.’” 
The statement that the sessile arms were longer than the head and 
body together, indicates that this was a specimen of A. princcps, like 
Xo. 14, but larger. 
Xo. 20.— Banquereau specimen, 1870. 
This consists of the terminal part of a tentacular arm. which was taken 
by Capt. J. W. Collins and crew of the schooner “ Marion ” from the 
stomach of a large and voracious fish (Alepidosaurtis ferox), together with 
the first specimen discovered of the remarkable squid, Histioteuthte 
Collinsii Y, The fish was taken on a halibut trawl-line, north latitude 42° 
40', west longitude 62° 57', off Xova Scotia, January, 1870. This frag¬ 
ment, after preservation in strong alcohol, now measures 18 inches in 
length. It includes all the terminal club, and a portion of the naked 
arm below it. This club is narrow, measuring but .75 of an inch across its 
front side, while the naked arm is 1.25 broad, and rather flat, where cut 
