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the same individual that attacked the boat. But if not, it was pro- 

 bably one of the same species and of aboxit the same size. 



4. A pair of jaws and two of the suckers were recently forwarded 

 to me from the Smithsonian Institution. These were received from 

 Rev. A. Munn, who writes that they were taken from a specimen 

 that came ashore at Bonavista Bay, that it measured 32 feet in 

 length (probably the entire length, including more or less of the 

 arms), and about feet in circumference. This jaw is large and 

 broad, but much thinner than that of iN'o. 1, and without the deep 

 notch and angular lobe seen in that specimen. It probably belongs 

 to the Architeuthis dux of Steenstrup, or at least to the same species 

 as the jaw figured by Dr. Packard. 



5. A smaller specimen, captiired in December, in Logic Bay, about 

 3 miles from St. John's, in herring-nets. Of this I have a description 

 in a letter to Dr. Dawson from the Rev. M. Harvey, who has also 

 published a brief account of it in the ' Morning Chronicle ' of 

 St. John's. The letter is accompanied by two photographs of the 

 specimen — one showing the entire body, somewhat mutilated ante- 

 riorly, the other showing the head with the ten arms attached. 

 The body of this specimen was over 7 feet long, and between 5 and 

 6 feet in circumference ; the caudal fin was 22 inches broad, but 

 ehort, thick, and emarginate posteriorly on each side, the end of the 

 body being acute ; the two long tentacular arms were 24 feet in 

 length, and 2^ inches in circumference, except at the broader part 

 near the end, the tips slender and acute ; the largest suckers 1*25 

 inch in diameter, with serrated edges ; the eight short arms were 

 each G feet long ; the two largest were 10 inches in circumference 

 at base, the others were 9, 8, and 7 inches. These short arms 

 taper to slender acute tips ; and each bears about 100 large, beU- 

 shaped suckers with serrated margins. Each of the long arms 

 bears about 160 suckers on the broad terminal portion, all of which 

 are denticulated ; the largest ones, which form two regular alter- 

 nating rows of twelve each, are about an inch in diameter. There 

 is also an outer row of much smaller suckers, alternating with the 

 large ones, on each margin ; the terminal part of these arms is 

 thickly covered with smaU suckers ; and numerous similar small 

 suckers are crowded on that portion of the arms where the enlarge- 

 ment begins, before the commencement of the rows of large suckers. 

 The arrangement of the suckers is nearly the same as on the long 

 arm of No. 2 ; but in the latter the terminal portion of the arm, be- 

 yond the large suckers, as shown in the photographs, is not so long, 

 tapering, and acute ; but this may be due to the different conditions 

 of the two specimens. It is probable that this was a young speci- 

 men of the same species as No. 2. 



From the facts known at present, it appears probable that aU 

 these specimens, and several others that have been reported at va- 

 rious times from the same region, are referable to)two species — one 

 (probably Architeuthis monachus) represented only by the first of 

 those enumerated above, and having a more elongated form of body 

 and stouter jaws ; the second (probably A. duo:) represented by 



