A. EF. Verrilli—North American Cephalopods. 19] 
Smith’s Sound, Trinity Bay, about twenty miles farther up the bay 
than the locality of the Catalina Bay specimen (No. 14). He received 
his information 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 Noy. 21, 1877, early in the morning, a ‘ big squid’ 
was seen on the beach, at Lance Cove, still alive and struggling des- 
perately 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 thirty 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-arms, 33 feet long. He did not measure the 
short arms, but estimated them at 13 feet, and that they were much 
thicker than a man’s thigh at their bases. The people cut the body 
open and it was left on the beach. It is an out-of-the-way place, and 
no one knew that it was of any value. Otherwise it could easily 
have been brought to St. John’s, with only the eyes destroyed and 
the body opened.” It was subsequently carried off by the tide, and 
no portion was secured. 
This was considerably larger than the Catalina specimen. ; 
The great thickness of the short arms of this specimen, and of some 
of the others, indicates a species distinct from A. Harvey, unless 
the sexes of that species differ more than is usual in this respect, 
among the smaller squids. The length of the sessile arms, if correctly 
stated, would indicate that this specimen belonged to A. princeps. 
In the female Ommastrephes illecebrosa, the common northern squid, 
the head is larger and the short arms are stouter and have larger 
suckers than in the male, of the same length. 
No. 1'7.—Trinity Bay specimen, 1877. 
Mr. Harvey also states that he had been informed by Mr. Duffet 
that another very large ‘big squid’ was cast ashore in October, 
1877, about five miles farther up Trinity Bay than the last. It was 
cut up and used for manure. No portions are known to have been 
preserved, and no measurements were given. 
No. 18.—Thimble Tickle specimen, 1878. 
The capture of this specimen has been graphically described by 
Mr. Harvey, in a letter to the Boston Traveller, of Jan. 30, 1879. 
“On the 2d day of November last, Stephen Sherring, a fisherman 
