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an oblique, strongly denticulated ring, which, in all the suckers figured, 

 including both larger and smaller ones from the short arms, has regular, 

 acute, subequal denticles all around the circumference, in this respect 

 agreeing with A. Harveyi. The internal diameter of the largest of these 

 suckers is .75 of an inch ; the external 1.05 inches. They were furnished 

 with slender pedicels, attached obliquely on one side. The lingual teeth 

 (see Plate XII, fig. lc, copied from Harting) are in seven regular 

 rows, and resemble closely those of Loligo. On that account mainly, in 

 a former paper, I proposed to designate it by the name of Loligo Hart- 

 ingii. But since that time I have been able to study the dentition of the 

 species of Architenthis and Sthenotenthis, and now refer Harting's spe- 

 cies to Architenthis, without hesitation, although the dentition is poorly 

 figured. Professor Steenstrup, in a letter to me subsequent to the pub- 

 lication of my former papers, also expressed the opinion that Harting's 

 specimen belongs to A. monachus. If distinct, however, as is possible, 

 it may be called Architeuthis Hartingii. 



The other species described by Harting was from the Indian Ocean, 

 and belongs to the genus Enoploteuthis (Plate XII, fig. 4, jaws). 



In this genus there are large, sharp, curved claws (see Plate XV, figs. 

 5, a, 6), both on the club of the tentacular arms and on the sessile arms, 

 in place of the suckers of ordinary squids. The teeth of the odonto- 

 phore, in Harting's species, are remarkably small and simple (see fig. 

 5, c, d, after Harting). As this species does not appear to have had a 

 special name, I propose to call it Enoploteuthis Hartingii. 



D'Orbigny* gave the name Enoploteuthis Molince to a large species, of 

 which the body was estimated to be about 4 feet long, found floating 

 and mutilated in the South Pacific, south latitude 30° 44', west longitude 

 110° 33', by Banks and Solander, in 1769, on Captain Cook's second 

 voyage. Of this, fragments are preserved in the Museum of the College 

 of Surgeons, London. t 



A similar species, perhaps based on the same specimen, was recorded 

 by Molina, from off the coast of Chili, as Seppia ungukulata. 



Lieutenant Bouyer, of the French steamer "Alecton," encountered a 

 huge Cephalopod, in November, 1860, between Madeira and Teneriffe. 

 Its body was estimated to be between 15 and 18 feet in length. A long 

 and laborious attempt was made to capture it, and a slip-noose was 

 passed around the body, but on attempting to hoist it on board, the rope 

 cut through the soft tlesh and the tail alone was secured. A sketch of 

 the animal was made by one of the officers. 



The original account of this occurrence, given in the Comptes-Bendus 

 of the French Academy of Science for 1861, is as follows: 



M. Flourens read the following report made to the minister of tlie 

 marine by M. Bouyer, lieutenant commanding the "Alecton."! 



* Histoire Nat. des Cephalopodes Acetabuliferea, p. 339, 1845. 

 tSee also Todd's Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology, i, p. 529. 

 t Comptes-Rcndus Acad, of Sciences, vol. liii, p. 1263. For the following transla- 

 tions I am indebted to Mr. Sanderson Smith. 



