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(4). A pair of jaws and two of the suckers were recently for- 

 warded to mc from the Smitlisonian Institution, These were re- 

 ceived from Rev, A. Munn, who writes that they were taken from 

 a specimen that came ashore at Bonavista Bay'; that it measured 

 thirty-two feet in length (probably the entire lengtli, includino- 

 more or less of the arms) ; and about six feet in circumforence. 

 This jaw is large and broad, but much thinner than that of No. 1, 

 and without the deep notch and angular lobe seen in that speci- 

 men. It probably belongs to the Architeuthis dux of Steenstrup, 

 or at least to the same species as the jaw^ figured by Dr. Packard. 



(5). A smaller specimen, captured in December, in Logic Bay, 

 about three miles from St. John, in herring nets. Of this I have 

 a description in a letter to Dr. Dawson, from M. Ilarvey, Esq., 

 who has also published a brief account of it in the " jMorning 

 Chronicle," of St. John. The letter is acompanied by two photo- 

 graphs of the specimen : one showing the entire body, somewhat 

 mutilated anteriorly ; the other showing the head with the ten 

 arms attached. The body of this specimen was over seven feet 

 long, and between five and six feet in circumference ; the caudal 

 fin was twenty-two inches broad, but short, thick, and emarginate 

 posteriorly on each side, the end of the body being acute ; the 

 two long tentacular-arms were twenty-four feet in length, and two 

 and a half inches in circumference, except at the broader part near 

 the end; the tips slender and acute; the largest suckers 1-25 inch 

 in diameter, with serrated edges ; the eight short arms were each 

 six feet long ; the two largest were ten inches in circumference at 

 base ; the others were 9, 8 and 7 inches. These short arms taper 

 to slender acute tips, and each bears about 100 large, bell-shaped 

 suckers, with serrated margins. Each of the long arms bear, 

 about 160 suckers on the broad terminal portion, all of which 

 are denticulated; the largest ones, which form tAVO regular alter 

 nating rows, of twelve each, are about an inch in diameter. 

 There is also an outer row of much smaller suckers, alternating 

 with the large ones, on eacli margin ; the terminal part of these 

 arms is thickly covered with small suckers : and numerous similar 

 small suckers are crowded on that portion of the arras where the 

 enlargement begins, before the commencement of the rows of 

 large suckers. The arrangement of the suckers is nearly the same 

 as on the long arm of No. 2, but in the latter the terminal por- 

 tion of the arm, beyond the large suckers, as shown in the photo- 

 graphs, is not so long, tapering, and acute, but this may be 

 due to the dilFerent conditions of the two specimens. It is proba- 

 ble that this was a young specimen of the same species as No. 2. 



Fi'om the fiicts known at present, it appears probable that all 

 these specimens, and several others that have been reported at 

 various times from the same region, are referable to two species ; 

 one (probably Architeuthis monachus) represented only by the 

 first of those enumerated above, and having a more elongated 

 form of body and stouter jaws; the second (probably A. dux) 

 represented by Nos. 2 to 5, above described, having a short, 



