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He moreover says that all the arms were covered with large suckers, 

 from the base outward. Hence it is probable that he made a mistake 

 as to these stumps, and that they really belonged to a pair of sessile 

 arms. Probably the tentacular-arms, when extended, had been cut 

 oiFso close to their contractile bases that their stumps had afterwards 

 become contracted within their basal pouches, and were, therefore, 

 overlooked. He adds that the body was three feet broad (doubtless 

 it was much flattened from its natural form), and that the measure- 

 ments were made while the body lay upon uneven ground, so that its 

 exact length could not be easily ascertained, and that the caudal-fin 

 had been cut ofi" at its base. As the tail-fins of Nos. 5 and 14 were 

 about one-fifth the length of the rest of the body and the head 

 together, this specimen, if belonging to either of those species, should 

 have been about 12 feet from the base of the arms to the tip of the 

 tail. 



The large sucker, in my possession, is one inch in diameter, across 

 the denticulated rim, and. in form and structure agrees closely with 

 those described and figured by me from the tentacular-arms of Nos. 

 4, 5 and 14, (Plate XVI, figs. 3, 5, 6, and Plate XYII, figures 1, 1=^). 



The jaws are still attached together, in their natural position, by 

 the cartilages. They agree very closely in form with the large jaws 

 of Architeuthis princeps V. (No. 10), figured on Plate XVIH, but 

 they are about one-tenth smaller. 



No. 1 4.— Catalina specimen, 1877. (Architeuthis princeps.) 

 Plate XVII, figs. 1-5. Plate XIX. Plate XX. 

 A nearly perfect specimen of a large squid, was found cast ashore 

 after a severe gale, at Catalina, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Sept. 24, 

 ISW. It was living when found. It was exhibited for two or three 

 days at St. John's, and subsequently was carried in brine to New 

 York, where it was purchased by Reiche & Brother for the New York 

 Aquarium. There I liad an opportunity to examine it, very soon after 

 its arrival.* I am also indebted to the proprietors of the aquarium 

 fo]- some of the loose suckei's. Other suckers from this specimen were 

 sent to me from Newfoundland, by the Rev. M. Harvey. Although 



* See American Jounial of Science and Arts, vol. xiv, p. 425, Nov., 1877. When 

 examined by me it was loose in a tank of alcohol. Dr. J. B. Holder gave me valuable 

 assistance in making this examination, and also made one of the drawings of the 

 caudal fin. It was afterwards " prepared" for exhibition by a taxidermist, who mis- 

 placed the arms, siphon, and other parts, and inserted two large, round, flat, red eyes 

 close together on the top of the head ! 



