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had brought it home in a mutilated state, and carefully measured 
some portions with his own hand. He found that the body measured 
15 feet from the beak to the end of the tail, which is five feet 
longer than the New York specimen. The circumference of the body 
at its thickest part was 12 feet. He found only one of the short 
arms perfect, which was 16 feet in length, being five feet longer 
than a similar arm of the New York specimen, and he describes it as 
“thicker than a man’s thigh.” The statement that the sessile arms 
were longer than the head and body together, indicates that this was 
a specimen of A. princeps, like No. 14, but larger. 
No. 20.—Banquereau specimen, 1878. (Architeuthis megaptera V.?.) 
This consists of the terminal part of a tentacular arm, which was 
taken by Capt. J. W. Collins and crew, of the schooner “ Marion,” 
from the stomach of a large and voracious fish (Alepidosaurus ferow) 
together with the only specimen hitherto discovered of the remarkable 
squid, HZistioteuthis Collinsii V. The fish was taken on a halibut 
trawl-line, N. lat. 42° 49’; W. long. 62° 57’, off Nova Scotia, 1879. 
This fragment, after preservation in strong alcohol, now measures 18 
inches in length. It includes all the terminal club, and a portion of 
the naked arm below it. The club is narrow, measuring but °75 inch 
across its front side, while the naked arm is 1°25 broad, and rather 
flat, where cut off. From the commencement of the large suckers 
to the tip, it measures 9°25 inches. It had lost most of its suckers, 
so that it cannot be identified with certainty. Part of the large 
suckers and some of the marginal ones still remain, though the horny 
rings are gone; diameter of large suckers, ‘50 inch; of marginal 
ones, about 12. ‘The suckers have the same form and arrangement 
as in the larger specimens of Architeuthis. It may, perhaps, belong 
to Architeuthis megaptera, or to a young A. Harvey. 
No. 21.—Cape Sable specimen. (Architeuthis megaptera V.) 
PLATE XX. 
This specimen was found thrown on the shore near Cape Sable, 
N.5., after a very severe gale, several years ago. It is preserved in 
alcohol, entire, and in good condition, in the Provincial Museum at 
Halifax, where it is well exhibited in a large glass jar. It is the type 
specimen of Architeuthis megaptera, described by me, Sept., 1878.* 
It is a comparatively small species, its total length being but 43 
* American Journal of Science, xvi, p. 207, 1878. 
TRANS. Conn. ACAD., VOL. V. 25 JANUARY, 1880, 
