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No. 4.— Bonavista Bay specimen. {A. iiarveyi?.) 

 Plate XVI, figures 5, 6. 

 A pail- of jaws and two of the suckers from the tentacular- 

 arms were forwarded to me by Professor Baird of the Smithsouian 

 Institution. These were received from Rev. A. Muun, who writes 

 til at tliey were taken from a. specimen that came ashore at Bonavista 

 Bay, Newfoujidhmd; tliat it measured thirty-two feet in length 

 (probably the entire length, including the tentacular-arms) ; and 

 about six feet in circumference. The jaws are large and broad, resem- 

 bling those of No. 5, both in size and form, but much thinner than 

 those of No, 1, and without the deep notch and angular lobe seen in 

 that specimen. The suckers also agree with those of No. 5, bat are 

 a little smaller. 



No. 5.— Logie Bay specimen, 1873. (ArcMteutMs Harreyi. type.) 

 Plate XIII. Plate XIV. Plate XV, figures 1, 2, 3. Plate XVI, figures 1 to 4. 



A complete specimen was captured in November, 1873, at Logie 

 Bay, near St. John's, Newfoundland. It became entangled in herring- 

 nets and was secured by the fishermen with some difficulty, and only 

 after quite a struggle, during which its head was badly mutilated and 

 severed from the body, and the eyes, most of the siphon-tube, and part 

 of the front edge of the mantle were destroyed. It is probable that this 

 was a smaller specimen of the same species as No. 2. Fortunately this 

 specimen was secured by the Rev. M. Harvey of St, John's. After it 

 had been photographed and measured, he attempted to preserve it 

 entire in brine, but this was found to be ineffectual, and after decom- 

 position had begun to destroy some of the most perishable parts, he 

 took it from the brine and, dividing it into several portions, preserved 

 such parts as were still undecomposed in strong alcohol. These 

 various portions have all been examined by me and part of them are 

 now in my possession, and with the photographs have enabled me to 

 present a restoration, believed to be tolerably accurate, of the entire 

 creatiire (plate XIV). In this figure the eyes, ears, siphon-tube 

 and front edge of the mantle have been restored from a small squid 

 ( Ommastreplies). The other parts have been drawn directly from the 

 photographs and specimens.* There were two photographs of the 



* The figure was originally made, from the photographs only, by Mr. P. Roetter, of 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology, but after the arrival of the specimens it had to 

 be altered in many parts. These necessary changes were made by the writer, after a 

 careful study of the parts preserved, in comparison with the photographs and original 

 measurements. As published in my former papers, the eyes and back of the head of 



