190 A. E. Verrill—North American Cephalopods. 
somewhat mutilated, and not in a very good state of preservation 
when received, it is of great interest, being, without doubt, the largest 
and best specimen ever preserved. The Catalina specimen, when 
fresh,* was 9°5 feet from tip of tail to base of arms; circumference 
of body, 7 feet; circumference of head, 4 feet; length of tentacular- 
arms, 30 feet; length of longest sessile arms (ventral ones), 11 feet ; 
circumference at base, 17 inches; circumference of tentacular arms, 5 
inches; at their expanded portion, 8 inches. Length of upper mandi- 
ble, 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 (No. 5), but the cau- 
dal fin is broader and somewhat less acutely pointed than in that spe- 
cies, as seen in No. 53; it was two feet and nine 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 nineteen feet from the tips. The sessile arms pre- 
sent considerable disparity in length and size, the ventral ones being 
somewhat larger and longer than the others, which were, however, 
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 the inner edge is often without serrations. 
No. 15.—Hammer Cove specimen, 1876. 
In a letter from Rev. M. Harvey, dated Aug. 25, 1877, he states 
that a big squid was cast ashore Nov. 20, 1876, at Hammer Cove, on 
the southwest arm of Green Bay, in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland. 
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, 2°5 inches in diameter. 
The only portion secured was a piece of the ‘pen’ about 16 inches 
long, which was given to Mr. Harvey. 
No. 16.—Lance Cove specimen, 1877. (Architeuthis princeps ?, 9.) 
In a letter dated Nov. 27, 1877, Mr. Harvey gives an account of 
another specimen which was stranded on the shore at Lance Cove, 
* Measurements of the freshly caught specimen were made by the Rey. M. Harvey, 
at St. John’s, and communicated to me. 
