A. E. Verrill — North Ainerican Cephalopods. 191 



Smith's Sound, Trinity Bay, about twenty miles farther up the bay 

 tlian the locality of the Catalina Bay specimen (No. 14). He received 

 his information from Mr. John Dufiet, a resident of the locality, who 

 was one of the persons who found it and measured it. His account 

 is as follows : " On Nov. 21, 1877, early in the morning, a 'big squid' 

 was seen on the beach, at Lance Cove, still alive and struggling des- 

 perately to escape. It had been borne in by a 'spring tide' and a 

 high inshore wind. In its struggles to get off it jDloughed up a 

 trench or furrow about thirty feet long and of considerable depth by 

 the stream of water that it ejected with great force from its siphon. 

 When the tide receded it died. Mr. Duffet measured it carefully, 

 and found that the body was nearly 11 feet long (probably including 

 the head) ; the tentacular-arms, 33 feet long. He did not measure the 

 short arms, but estimated them at 13 feet, and that they were much 

 thicker than a man's thigh at their bases. The people cut the body 

 open and it was left on the beach. It is an out-of-the-way place, and 

 no one knew that it was of any value. Otherwise it could easily 

 have been brought to St. John's, with only the eyes destroyed and 

 the body opened." It was subsequently carried off by the tide, and 

 no portion was secured. 



This was considerably larger than the Catalina specimen. 



The great thickness of the short arms of this specimen, and of some 

 of the others, indicates a species distinct from A. Harveyi, unless 

 the sexes of that species differ more than is usual in this respect, 

 among the smaller squids. The length of the sessile arms, if correctlv 

 stated, would indicate that this specimen belonged to A. princeps. 

 In tlie female Onnnastreplies illecehrosa, the common northern squid, 

 the head is larger and the short arms are stouter and have laro-er 

 suckers than in the male, of the same length. 



No. 17.— Trinity Bay specimen, 1877. 



Mr. Harvey also states that he had been informed by Mr. Duffet 

 that another very large ' big squid' was cast ashore in October 

 1877, about five miles farther up Trinity Bay than the last. It was 

 cut up and used for manure. No portions are known to have been 

 preserved, and no measurements were given. 



No. 18.— Thimble Tickle specimen, 1878. 



The captui-e of this specimen has been graphically described by 

 Mr. Harvey, in a letter to the Boston Traveller, of Jan. 30, 1879. 

 " On the 2d day of November last, Stephen Sherring, a fisherman 



