186 A. E. Vervill—North American Cephalopods. 
the posterior end, as in Loliyo, it expands and thins out toward the 
posterior end, which is very broadly rounded or irregularly truncate, 
fading out insensibly, both at the edges and end, into soft membrane. 
The anterior end, for about an inch and a half, was rapidly narrowed 
to a pen-like point, as in Loligo,; from this portion backward the 
width gradually increases from 1*2 inches to 5 inches, at a point 25 
inches from the end, where our specimen is broken off; at this place 
the marginal strips are wanting, but the width is 5 inches between 
the lateral midribs (d, d’), which were, perhaps, half an inch from 
the margin. Along the center of the shell, there is a strong, raised, 
rounded midrib, which fades out a short distance from the posterior 
end, but is very conspicuous in the middle and anterior sections. On 
each side of the midrib is a lateral rib of smaller size. These at first 
diverge rapidly from the central one, and then run along nearly 
parallel with the outer margin and about ‘4 of an inch from it, but 
beyond 11 inches from the point the margins are torn off. Like the 
midrib the lateral ribs gradually fade out before reaching the poste- 
rior end; near the place where they finally disappear, they are about 
six inches apart.* 
No. 6 (of former articles).—Same as No. 38. 
No. 7.—Labrador specimen. 
Dr. D. Honeyman, geologist, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, has published, 
ina Halifax paper, a statement made to him by a gentleman who 
claims to have been present at the capture of another specimen (No. 7) 
in the Straits of Belle Isle, at West St. Modent, on the Labrador 
side. “It was lying peacefully in the water when it was provoked 
by the push of an oar. It looked fierce and ejected much water from 
its funnel; it did not seem to consider it necessary to discharge its 
sepia, as mollusca of this kind generally do, in order to cover their 
escape.” . . . . “The length of its longest arm was 37 feet; 
the length of the body 15 feet ; whole length 52. The bill was very 
* Mr. Harvey published popular accounts of this specimen and of the previously cap- 
tured arm of the larger one (No. 2), in the Maritime Monthly Magazine of St. John, 
N. B., for March, 1874, and in several newspapers. Acknowledgments are also due 
to Mr. Alexander Murray, Provincial Geologist, who coéperated with Mr. Harvey in 
the examination and preservation of these specimens, and who has also written some 
of the accounts of them that have been published. See also the American Naturalist, 
vol. viii, p. 122, February, 1874; American Journal of Science, vol. vii, p. 460; Nature, 
vol. ix, p. 322, February 26,1874; and Appleton’s Journal, January 31, 1874; Forest 
and Stream, p. 356 (with figure), Jan., 1874. 
