188 A. E. Verrill — Korth American Cephalopods. 



above measurements, and it will, therefore, be desirable to give a 

 special niimber (11) to the present one. 



No. 12.— Harbor Grace specimen, 1874-75. 



Another specimen, which we have designated as No. 12, was cast 

 ashore in the winter of 1874-1875, near Harbor Grace, but was 

 destroyed before its value became known, and no measurements were 

 given. 



No. 13.— Fortune Bay specimen, 1874. 

 Plate XVII. 

 A specimen was cast ashore December, 1874, at Grand Bank, For- 

 tune Bay, Newfoundland. As in the case of several of the previous 

 specimens, I was indebted to the Rev. M. Harvey for early informa- 

 tion concerning this one, and also for the jaws and one of the large 

 suckers of the tentacular-arms, obtained through Mr. Simms, these 

 being the only parts preserved. Although this specimen w^ent ashore 

 in December, Mr. Harvey did not hear of the event until March, 

 owing to the unusual interruption of travel by the severity of the 

 winter. He informed me that Mr. George Simms, Magistrate of 

 Grand Bank, had stated in a letter to him that he examined the 

 creature a few hours after it went ashore, but not before it had been 

 mutilated by the removal of the tail by the fishermen, who finally 

 cut it up as food for their numerous dogs ; and that the long tentac- 

 ular arms were 26 feet long and 16 inches in circumference; the short 

 arms were about one-third as long as the long ones ; the " back of the 

 head or neck was 36 inches in circumference," (evidently meaning the 

 head, behind the bases of the arms) ; the length of the body " from 

 the junction to the tail" was 10 feet, (apparently meaning from the 

 base of the arms to the origin of the caudal fins). He thought that 

 the tail, which had been removed, was about one-third as long as the 

 body, but this was probably overestimated. In No. 14 the tail, from 

 its origin or base, was aboiit one-fifth as long as the balance of the 

 body and head. Applying the same proportions to No. 13, the head 

 and body together would have been 12 feet. In a letter to me, dated 

 Oct. 27, 1875, Mr. Simms confirmed the above measurements, but 

 stated that the long arms had been detached, and that the bases of 

 the arms measured as those of the tentacular-arms (they had pre- 

 viously been cut off about a foot from the head), were triangxxlar in 

 outline, the sides being respectively 5, 6, 5 inches in breadth, the 

 longest or outer side being convex and the two lateral sides straight. 



