[9] CEPIIALOPODS OF NORTHEASTERN COAST OF AMERICA. 
ing it into several portions, preserved such parts as were still un- 
decomposed in strong alcohol. These various portions have all been 
examined by me, and part of them are now in my possession, and, 
with the photographs, hav<* enabled me to present a restoration, be¬ 
lieved to be tolerably accurate, of the entire creature (Plate II). In 
this figure the eyes, ears, siphon-tube, and front edge of the mantle 
have been restored from a small squid ( Ommastrephes). The other 
parts have been drawn directly from the photographs and speci¬ 
mens.* There were two photographs of the specimen,! one show¬ 
ing the entire body, somewhat mutilated anteriorly, the other showing 
the head with the ten arms attached (Plate I, fig. 1). The photographs 
were made by Messrs. McKenny & Parsons, of Saint John’s. The 
body or mantle of this specimen was about 7 feet long and between 5 
and 6 feet in circumference; the relatively small caudal fin was 
arrow-shaped and 22 inches broad, but short, thick, and very pointed 
at the end; the two long tentacular arms were 24 feet in length and 
2.5 inches in circumference, except at the broader part near the end ; 
the largest suckers, which form two regular alternating rows, of twelve 
each, were 1.25 inches in diameter, with serrated edges. There is also 
an outer row of much smaller suckers, alternating with the large ones, 
on each margin; the terminal part is thickly covered with small ser¬ 
rated suckers; and numerous small suckers and tubercles 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 large suckers, as 
shown in the photographs, is not so long, tapering, and acute, but 
this may be due to the different conditions of the two specimens. 
The eight short arms were each 6 feet long; the two largest were 10 
inches in circumference at base; the others were 9, 8, and 7 inches. 
These short arms taper to slender, acute tips, and each bears more than 
100 large, oblique suckers, with serrated margins, and over 200 smaller 
ones toward the tip. 
* The figure was originally made, from the photographs only, by Mr. P. Rcetter, of 
the Museum of Comparative Zoology, hut after the arrival of the specimens it had to 
he altered in many parts. These necessary changes were made by the writer, after a 
careful study of the parts preserved, in comparison with the photographs and origi¬ 
nal measurements. As published in my first paper (1875), the eyes and back of the head 
of the figure were restored as in Loligo. Subsequent studies and additional specimens 
showed that this genus is closely allied to Ommastrephes. Therefore, the head would 
howe been more correctly shown had it been restored with reference to that genus, as 
has been done in this paper. The most obvious difference is in the eyes, which have 
distinct lids and an anterior sinus. 
t Cuts made from these photographs have been published in several magazines and 
nowspapers, but they have been engraved with too little attention to details to be of 
much use in the discrimination of specific differences. I have, therefore, prepared 
new figures from these photographs with the greatest care possible (Plato I). These 
figures are particularly valuable, as showing the arrangement of the suckers on the 
short arms. 
