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off. From the commencement of the large suckers to the tip it meas- 

 ures 9.25 inches. It had lost most of its suckers, so that it cannot be 

 identified with certainty. Part of the large suckers and some of the 

 marginal ones still remain, though the homy rings are gone. Diameter 

 of large suckers, .50 of an inch ; of marginal ones, about .12 of an inch. 

 The suckers have the same form and arrangement as in the larger spec- 

 imens of Architeuthis. It may have belonged to a young A. Harvey i. 



No. 21. — Cape Sable specimen. {Sthenoteuthis megaptera V.) 



Plate XVI. 



This specimen was found thrown on the shore, near Cape Sable, Nova 

 Scotia, after the very severe gale in which the steamer " City of Boston" 

 was lost several years ago. It is preserved in alcohol, entire and in 

 good condition, in the Provincial Museum at Halifax, where it is well 

 exhibited in a large glass jar. It is the type-specimen of Architeuthis 

 megaptera, described by me, September, 1878.* It is a comparatively 

 small species, its total length being but 43 inches ; its head and body 

 together, 19 inches ; body alone, 14 inches ; its tentacular arms, 22 and 

 24 inches ; short arms, from C.5 to 8.5 inches; tail-fin, 13.5 inches broad 

 and G inches long. 



This species differs widely from all the others in the relatively enor- 

 mous size and breadth of its caudal fin, which is nearly as broad as the 

 body is long, and more than twice as broad as long. It has been made 

 the type of a new generic group. 



No. 22. — Brigus specimen, 1879. 



Mr. Harvey states that portions of another large squid were cast ashore 

 near Brigus, Conception Bay, in October, 1879. 



Two of the short arms, each measuring 8 feet in length, were found 

 with other mutilated parts, after a storm. 



No. 23. — James's Cove specimen, 1879. 



Prom Mr. Harvey I have also very recently received an account of 

 another specimen, which was captured entire, about the first of Novem- 

 ber 1879, at James's Cove, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland. It seems to 

 have been a fine and complete specimen, about the size of the Catalina 

 Bay specimen (No. 14). Unfortunately, the fishermen, as usual, indulged 

 immediately in their propensity to cut and destroy, and it is doubtful if 

 any portion was preserved. The account referred to was published in 

 the Morning Chronicle of Saint John's, Newfoundland, December 9, 1879, 

 and was credited to the Harbor Grace Standard. The author of the 

 article is not given. The following extract contains all that is essential: 

 "A friend at Musgrave Town sends us the following particulars relative 

 to the capture of a big squid at James's Cove, Goose Bay, about a month 



"American Journal of Science, xvi, p. 207, 1878. 



