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somewhat mutilated, and not in a very good state of preservation 

 when received, it is of great interest, being, without doubt, the largest 

 and best specimen ever preserved. The Catalina sj^ecimen, when 

 fresh,* was 9*5 feet from tip of tail to base of arms ; circumference 

 of body, 7 feet ; circumference of head, 4 feet ; length of tentacular- 

 anns, 30 feet; length of longest sessile arms (ventral ones), 11 feet; 

 circumference at base, 17 inches; circumference of tentacular arms, 5 

 inches ; at their expanded portion, 8 inches. Length of upper mandi- 

 ble, 5*25 inches; diameter of large suckers, 1 inch; diameter of eye- 

 openings, 8 inches. The eyes were destroyed by the captors. It 

 agrees in general appeai-ance with A. Harveyi (No. 5), but the cau- 

 dal fin is broader and somewhat less acutely pointed than in that spe- 

 cies, as seen in No. 5 ; it was two feet and nine inches broad, when 

 fresh, and broadly sagittate in form. The di'ied rims of the large suckers 

 are white, with very acutely serrate margins ; the small smooth- 

 rimmed suckers, with their accompanying tubercles, are distantly 

 scattered along most of the inner face of the tentacular arms, the last 

 ones noticed being nineteen feet from the tips. The sessile arms pre- 

 sent considerable disparity in length and size, the ventral ones being- 

 somewhat larger and longer than the others, which were, however, 

 more or less mutilated when examined by me ; the serrations are 

 smaller on the inner edge than on the outer edge of the suckers. On 

 the smaller suckers the inner edge is often without serrations. 



No. 15.— Hammer Cove specimen, 1876. 



In a letter from Rev. M. Harvey, dated Aug. 25, 1877, he states 

 that a big squid was cast ashore Nov. 20, 1876, at Hammer Cove, on 

 the southwest arm of Green Bay, in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland. 

 When first discovered by his informant it had already been partially 

 devoured by foxes and sea-birds. Of the body, a portion 5 feet long 

 remained, with about 2 feet of the basal part of the arms. The head 

 was 18 inches broad ; tail, 18 inches broad ; eye-sockets, 7 by 9 inches ; 

 stump of one of the arms, 2'5 inches in diameter. 



The only portion secured was a piece of the 'pen' about 16 inches 

 long, which was given to Mr. Haiwey. 



No. 16.— Liance Cove specimen, 1877. {ArchUeutMsprinceps?, ?.) 



In a letter dated Nov. 27, 1877, Mr. Harvey gives an account of 

 another specimen which was stranded on the shore at Lance Cove, 



* Measurements of the freshly caught specimen were made by the Rev. M. Harvey, 

 at St. .John's, and communicated to me. 



