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out with the tide. It was a happy thought, for the devil-fish found 

 himself effectually moored to the^ shore. His struggles were terrific as 

 he fluug his teu arms about in dying agony. The fishermen took care 

 to keep a respectful distance from the long tentacles, which ever and 

 anon darted out like great tongues from the central mass. At length 

 it became exhausted, and as the water receded it expired. 



"The fishermen, alas! knowing no better, proceeded to convert it 

 into dog's meat. It was a splendid specimen — the largest yet taken — 

 the body measuring 20 feet from the beak to the extremity of the tail. 

 It was thus exactly double the size of the New York specimen [No. 14], 

 and 5 feet longer than the one taken by Budgell. The circumference 

 of the body is not stated, but one of the arms measured 35 feet. This 

 must have been a tentacle." 



No. 19. — Three Arms specimen, 1878. (ArcMteuthis princess f) 



Mr. Harvey has also given an account of this specimen in the same 

 letter to the Boston Traveller, referred to under No. 18. This one was 

 found cast ashore, after a heavy gale of wind, December 2, 1878, by Mr. 

 William Budgell, a fisherman, residing at a place called Three Arms, 

 on the south arm of Notre Dame Bay. It was dead when found, and 

 was cut up and used for dog-meat. Mr. Harvey's account is as follows : 



" My informant, a very intelligent person, who was on a visit in that 

 quarter on business, arrived at Budgell's house soon after he had 

 brought it home in a mutilated state, and carefully measured some por- 

 tions with his own hand. He found that the body measured 15 feet 

 from the beak to the end of the tail, which is 5 feet longer than the 

 New York specimen. The circumference of the body at its thickest 

 part was 12 feet. He found only one of the short arms perfect, which 

 was 1G feet in length, being 5 feet longer than a similar arm of the 

 New York specimen, and he describes it as 'thicker than a man's 

 thigh.'" 



The statement that the sessile arms were longer than the head and 

 body together, indicates that this was a specimen of A. princeps, like 

 No. 14, but larger. 



No. 20. — Banquereau specimen, 1879. 



This consists of the terminal part of a tentacular arm, which was taken 

 by Capt. J. W. Collins and crew of the schooner " Marion " from the 

 stomach of a large and voracious fish (Alepidosaurus ferox), together with 

 the first specimen discovered of the remarkable squid, Histioteitthis 

 Collinsii V. The fish was taken on a halibut trawl-line, north latitude 42° 

 49', west longitude G2° 57', off Nova Scotia, January, 1879. This frag- 

 ment, after preservation in strong alcohol, now measures 18 inches in 

 length. It includes all the terminal club, and a portion of the naked 

 arm below it. This club is narrow, measuring but .75 of an inch across its 

 front side, while the naked arm is 1.25 broad, and rather fiat, Avhere cut 



