[ 219 ] CEPHALOPODS OF NORTHEASTERN COAST OF AMERICA. 
Notes on the visceral anatomy. 
Anatomically, this species closely resembles Desmoteutliis hypcrborca. 
(See Plate XXV, fig. 1.) It has a similar short, thick, compressed, ovate 
liver, with the intestine in a groove along its ventral edge, and the small 
ink-sac imbedded in its antero-ventral surface. The gills are laterally 
placed, short, with long lamellae. The heart is small, irregularly tubular, 
oblique, with four angles or lobes where joined by the principal vessels. 
The efferent vessels from the gills are long and conspicuous, because the 
bases of the gills are distant from the heart. 
The alimentary tract consists of a short, narrow rectum, attached to 
the liver, and ending in a bilabiate aperture, guarded by two slender 
papillae; of a long, rather wide, tubular portion, extending back to the 
base of the caudal fin, and covered, along the ventral side, with lateral 
rows of clusters of small follicular glands, which, near the liver, diverge 
into two, separate, large, lateral clusters; posteriorly, where the rows of 
follicles cease, there is a small, firm, bean-shaped glandular organ, lam- 
ellose within, probably serving as a gizzard; this is followed by a long 
tubular, or fusiform, more or less saccular stomach and a csecal append¬ 
age, running back nearly to the end of the body; at its anterior origin 
this ctecal appendage is separated from the stomach by a constriction. 
The testicle is a rather small, slender, lanceolate organ, attached lat¬ 
erally, for its whole length, to the side of the csecal appendage. The 
prostate gland and vesicuhc seminales have their usual position at the 
base of the left gill, but they are small and probably not fully developed; 
the efferent duct extends over and a short distance beyond the base of 
the gill, and is slender and pointed. The renal organs are very different 
from those of the common squids ( Loligo and Ommastreplies). The pos¬ 
terior part of the anterior vena-cava becomes glandular in front of the 
heart; there it parts, sending a long, smooth vein to the base of each 
gill; there each of these veins expands into an ovate renal organ, be¬ 
fore joining the branchial auricles. 
Architeuthis Harveyi Verrill. (No. 27; seep. [201].) 
Since the preceding pages were put in type, I have been able to ex¬ 
amine the specimen* mentioned on p. [201]. 
This specimen was purchased by Mr. E. M. Worth, and preserved, in 
alcohol, at his museum, 101 Bowery street, Xew York, where I had a 
good opportunity to examine it, about two weeks after it had been put 
in alcohol. 
Although this is more nearly complete than any specimen hitherto 
brought to this country, the arms and suckers are not so well preserved 
* An account of this specimen, accompanied by a wood-cut, apparently copied from 
the photograph, was published in “ Harper’s Weekly ” for December 10. This iigure, 
though poor, gives a fair idea of the general appearance of the creature as it would 
look if lying llabby and collapsed on the shore. The peculiar appearance of the cau¬ 
dal fiu was due to mutilation of that organ. 
