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thick, and reddish inside as well as out. The suction-cups were all 

 clustered together, near the extremity of the long arm, and each cup 

 was surrounded by a serrated edge, almost like the teeth of a hand- 

 saw. I presume it made use of this arm for a cable, and the cups for 

 anchors, when it wanted to come to, as well as to secure its prey, for 

 this individual, finding a heavy sea was driving it ashore, tail first, 

 seized hold of a rock and moored itself quite safely until the men 

 pulled it on shore." 



Mr. Bennett, in a memorandum subsequently given to Mr. Sanderson 

 Smith, and communicated to me by him, states that both the tentacu- 

 lar arms were present, and that the shorter one was 41.5 feet in length. 

 The large diameter of the short arms, compared with their length and 

 with that of the long arms, and their shortness compared with the 

 length of the body, are points in which this specimen apparently dif- 

 fered essentially from those that have been preserved and are better 

 known. It was probably a female. The total length, as I understand 

 the measurements, was 52 feet. 



No. 4. — Bona vista Bay specimen. (Architeuthis Harveyi?) 



Plate III, figures 4, 4«. Plate IV, figures 1, la. 



A pair of jaws and two of the suckers from the tentacular arms were 

 forwarded to me by Professor Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 These were received from Rev. A. Munn, who writes that they w T ere 

 taken from a specimen that came ashore at Bonavista Bay, Newfound- 

 land' that it measured 32 feet in length (probably the entire length, 

 including the tentacular arms) and about G feet in circumference. The 

 jaws are large and broad, resembling those of No. 5 both in size and 

 form, but much thinner than those of No. 1, and without the deep 

 notch and angular lobe seen in that specimen. The suckers also agree 

 with those of No. 5, but are a little smaller. 



No. 5. — Logie Bay specimen, 1873. {Arcliiteutliis Harveyi, type.) 



Plate I. Plate II. Plate HI. Plate IV, figures 4-11. Plate V, figures 1-5. 



A complete specimen was captured in November, 1873, at Logie Bay, 

 about four miles from Saint John's, Newfoundland. It became entangled 

 in a herring-net, and made a desperate effort to escape. It was killed 

 by the fishermen, with some difficulty, and only after a struggle, during 

 which its head was badly mutilated and severed from the body, and the 

 eyes, most of the siphon-tube, and part of the front edge of the mantle 

 were destroyed. It is probable that this was a smaller specimen of the 

 same species as No. 2. Fortunately, this specimen was secured by the 

 Rev. M. .Harvey, of Saint John's. After it had been photographed and 

 measured, he attempted to preserve it entire in briue, but this was 

 found to be ineffectual, and after decomposition had begun to destroy 

 eoine of the most perishable parts, he took it from the brine and, divid- 



