186 A. E. Vemll — JVorth American Cephalopods. 



the posterior end, as in T^oligo^ it expands and thins out toward the 

 posterior end, which is very broadly rounded or irregularly truncate, 

 fading out insensibly, both at the edges and end, into soft membrane. 

 The anterior end, for about an inch and a half, was rapidly narrowed 

 to a pen-like point, as in Loligo; from this portion backward the 

 width gradually increases from 1*2 inches to 5 inches, at a point 25 

 inches from the end, whei'e our specimen is broken off; at this place 

 the marginal strips are wanting, but the width is 5 inches between 

 the lateral midribs (c?, d"), which were, perhaps, half an inch from 

 the margin. Along the center of the shell, there is a strong, raised, 

 rounded midrib, which fades out a short distance from the posterior 

 end, but is very conspicuous in the middle and anterior sections. On 

 each side of the midrib is a lateral rib of smaller size. These at first 

 diverge rapidly from the central one, and then run along nearly 

 parallel with the outer margin and about '4 of an inch from it, but 

 beyond 11 inches from the point the margins are torn off. Like the 

 midrib the lateral ribs gradually fade out befor*e reaching the poste- 

 rior end ; near the place where they finally disappear, they are about 

 six inches apart.* 



No. 6 (of former articles).— Same as No. 3. 



No. 7.— Labrador specimen. 



Dr. D. Honeyman, geologist, of Ilalifiix, Nova Scotia, has published, 

 in a Halifax paper, a statement made to him by a gentleman who 

 claims to have been present at the capture of another specimen (No. 7) 

 in the Straits of Belle Isle, at West St. Modent, on the Labrador 

 side. " It was lying peacefully in the water when it was provoked 

 by the push of an oar. It looked fierce and ejected much water from 

 its funnel ; it did not seem to consider it necessary to discharge its 

 sepia, as mollusca of this kind generally do, in order to cover their 

 escape." .... "The length of its longest arm was 37 feet; 

 the length of the body 15 feet ; whole length 52. The bill was very 



* Mr. Harvey published popular accounts of this specimen and of the previously cap- 

 tured arm of the larger one (No. 2), in the Maritime Monthly Magazine of St. John, 

 N. B., for March, 1874, and in several newspapers. Acknowledgments are also due 

 to Mr. Alexander Murray, Provincial Geologist, wlio cooperated with Mr. Harvey in 

 the examination and preservation of these specimens, and who has also written some 

 of the accounts of them that have been published. See also the American Naturalist, 

 vol. viii, p. 122, February, 1874; American Journal of Science, vol. vii, p. 460 ; Nature, 

 vol. ix, p. 322, February 26, 1874; and Ajipleton's .Tonrnal, January 31, 1874; Forest 

 and Stream, p. 356 (with figure), Jan., 1874. 



