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longest sessile arms (ventral ones?), 11 feet; circumference at base, 17 

 inches; circumference of tentacular arms, 5 inches; at their expanded 

 portions, 8 inches ; length of upper mandible, 5.25 inches ; diameter of 

 large suckers, 1 inch; diameter of eye-openings, 8 inches. The eyes 

 were destroyed by the captors. It agrees in general appearance with 

 A. Harveyi (No. 5), but the caudal fin is broader and somewhat less 

 acutely pointed than in that species, as seen in No. 5 ; it was 2 feet and 

 9 inches broad, when fresh, and broadly sagittate in form. The dried 

 rims of the large suckers are white, with very acutely serrate margins; 

 the small smooth-rimmed suckers, with their accompanying tubercles, 

 are distantly scattered along most of the inner face of the tentacular 

 arms, the last ones noticed being 19 feet from the tips. The sessile 

 arms present considerable disparity in length and size, the ventral ones 

 being somewhat larger and longer than the others, which were, how- 

 ever, more or less mutilated when examined by me ; the serrations are 

 smaller on the inner edge than on the outer edge of the suckers. On the 

 smaller suckers beyond the middle of the arms the inner edge is without 

 serrations. 



No. 15. — Hammer Cove specimen, 1876. 



In a letter from Eev. M. Harvey, dated August 25, 1877, he states 

 that a big squid was cast ashore November 20, 1876, at Hammer Cove, 

 on the southwest arm of Green Bay, in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland. 

 When first discovered by his informant it had already been partially 

 devoured by foxes and sea-birds. Of the body, a portion 5 feet long 

 remained, with about 2 feet of the basal part of the arms. The head 

 was 18 inches broad; tail, 18 inches broad; eye-sockets, 7 by 9 inches; 

 stump of one of the arms, 3.5 inches in diameter. 



The only portion secured was a piece of the 'pen' about 16 inches 

 long, which was given to Mr. Harvey. 



No. 16. — Lance Cove specimen, 1877. (ArcMteuthis princeps? '$ .) 



In a letter dated November 27, 1877, Mr. Harvey gives an account 

 of another specimen which was stranded on the shore at Lance Cove, 

 Smith's Sound, Trinity Bay, about twenty miles farther up the bay than 

 the locality of the Catalina Bay specimen (No. 14). He received his in. 

 formation from Mr. John Duffet, a resident of the locality, who was one 

 of the persons who found it and measured it. His account is as follows : 

 "On November 21, 1877, early in the morning, a 'big squid' was seen 

 on the beach at Lance Cove, still alive and struggling desperately to 

 escape. It had been borne in by a 'spring tide' and a high inshore 

 wind. In its struggles to get off it ploughed up a trench or furrow 

 about 30 feet long and of considerable depth, by the stream of water 

 that it ejected with great force from its siphon. When the tide receded 

 it died. Mr. Duffet measured it carefully, and found that the body was 

 nearly 11 feet long (probably including the head), the tentacular arms 



