REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [14] 
longest sessile arms (ventral ones?)? H feet; circumference at base, 17 
inches ; circumference of tentacular arms, 5 inches ; at them expanded 
portions, 8 inches ; length of upper mandible, 5.25 inches; diameter of 
large suckers, 1 inch; diameter of eye-openings, 8 inches. The eyes 
were destroyed by the captors. It agrees in general appearance with 
A. Harveyi (So. 5), but the caudal fin is broader and somewhat less 
acutely pointed than in that species, as seen in Xo. 5 ; it was 2 feet and 
9 inches broad, when fresh, and broadly sagittate in form. The dried 
rims of the large suckers are white, with very acutely serrate margins; 
the small smooth-rimmed suckers, with their accompanying tubercles, 
are distantly scattered along most of the inner face of the tentacular 
arms, the last ones noticed being 19 feet from the tips. The sessile 
arms present considerable disparity in length and size, the ventral ones 
being somewhat larger and longer than the others, which were, how¬ 
ever, more or less mutilated when examined by me ; the serrations are 
smaller on the inner edge than on the outer edge of the suckers. On the 
smaller suckers beyond the middle of the arms the inner edge is without 
serrations. 
Xo. 15. — Hammer Cote specimen, 1876. 
In a letter from Eev. M. Harvey, dated August 25, 1877, he states 
that a big squid was cast ashore Xovember 20, 1876, at Hammer Cove, 
on the southwest arm of Green Bay, in Xotre Dame Bay, Xewfoundland. 
When first discovered by his informant it had already been partially 
devoured by foxes and sea-birds. Of the body, a portion 5 feet long 
remained, with about 2 feet of the basal part of the arms. The head 
was 18 inches broad; tail, 18 inches broad; eye-sockets, 7 by 9 inches; 
stump of one of the arms, 3.5 inches in diameter. 
The only portion secured was a piece of the ( pen’ about 16 inches 
long, which was given to Hr. Harvey. 
Xo; 16.— Lance Coye specimen, 1877. ( ArcMteutJiis princepsf $.) 
In a letter dated Xovember 27, 1877, Mr. Harvey gives an account 
of another specimen which was stranded on the shore at Lance Cove, 
Smith’s Sound, Trinity Bay, about twenty miles farther up the bay than 
the locality of the Catalina Bay specimen (Xo. 14). He received his in¬ 
formation from Mr. John Duffet, a resident of the locality, who was one 
of the persons who found it and measured it. His account is as follows: 
“On Xovember 21, 1877, early in the morning, a ‘big squid’ was seen 
on the beach at Lance Cove, still alive and struggling desperately to 
escape. It had been borne in by a ‘spring tide’ and a high inshore 
wind. In its struggles to get off it ploughed up a trench or furrow 
about 30 feet long and of considerable depth, by the stream of water 
that it ejected with great force from its siphon. When the tide receded 
it died. Mr. Duffet measured it carefully, and found that the body was 
nearly 11 feet long (probably including the head), the tentacular arm-s 
