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Chiroteuthis lacertosa, Verrill. 



1881. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and -So., vol. v., p. 408. 

 " Brown's Bank, off Nova Scotia, taken from the stomach of a cod (lot 

 956). Presented to the U. S. Fish Commission by Capt. Wm. Dempsey and 

 crew, of the schooner Clara F. Friend" (Verrill, op. cit., p. 411). 



Family OnycJiii, 

 GoNATUS Fabricii (Lichtenstein). 



Sepia loUffO, 0. Fabricivis (1780). 



Onychoteuthis Fabricii, Lichtenstein (1818) ; and Moller (1842). 



Gonatus Fabricii, Steenstrup (1880). 



Lestoteuthis Fabricii, Verrill (1881). 



" A young specimen of this species, in nearly perfect preservation, was 

 recently presented to the U. S. Fish Commission by Capt. William Dempsey 

 and crew, of the schooner Clara F. Friend. It was taken from the stomach 

 of a cod off 8eal Island, Nova Scotia" (Verrill ; op. cit., p. 292). 



Family Ommastrephidce. 



{Architeuthis Ilarveyi (Kent) has been found at Logie Bay and Portugal 

 Cove, near St. Johns, Newfoundland, and on the Grand Banks ; and A. 

 princeps, Verrill, at Catalina, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, also on the Grand 

 Banks ; but as yet there is no satisfactory evidence of the occurrence of 

 either off the coast of eastern Canada). 



Illex illecebrosus (Lesueur). 



Loligo illecebrosa, Lesueur (1821). 

 Ommastrcphes illecebrosa, Verrill (1872). 

 Jllcx illecebrosus, Steenstrup (1880). 



The "common squid" of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Maritime 

 Provinces, though, owing to its active mode of life, as a free swimmer, it is 

 rarely (if ever) taken in the dredge. Living or fresh specimens, however, 

 are not infrequently thrown on the beach by storms. Squids school in 

 summer, like mackerel and herring, and are caught by the Gaspe fishermen 

 by "jigging," and used as bait for cod. Kumlien says that this species 

 occurs in Cumberland Gulf (Baffin Land) ; and Verrill (op. cit., p. 281) that 

 "it extends as far south as Newport, R.I.," and that it is "very abundant 

 ia Massachusetts Bay, the Bay of Fundy and northward to Newfoundland." 



