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had brought it liome in a mutilated state, and carefully measured 

 some portions with his own hand. He found that the body measured 

 15 feet from the beak to the end of the tail, which is five feet 

 longer than the New York specimen. The circumference of the body 

 at its thickest part was 12 feet. He foimd only one of the short 

 arms perfect, which was 16 feet in length, being five feet longer 

 than a similar arm of the New York specimen, and he describes it as 

 " thicker than a man's thigh." The statement that the sessile arms 

 were longer than the head and body together, indicates that this was 

 a specimen of A. princeps, like No. 14, but largei". 



No. 20.— Banquereau specimen, 1878. {Architeutkis megapteraY.?.) 



This consists of the terminal part of a tentacular arm, which was 

 taken by Capt. J. W. Collins and crew, of the schooner " Marion," 

 from the stomach of a large and voracious .fish [Alejndosauriis ferox) 

 together with the only specimen hitherto discovered of the remarkable 

 squid, Ilistioteuthis Collinsii V. The fish was taken on a halibut 

 trawl-line, N. lat. 42° 49'; W. long. 62° 57', off Nova Scotia, 1879. 

 This fragment, after preservation in strong alcohol, now measures 18 

 inches in length. It inchides all the terminal club, and a portion of 

 the naked arm below it. The club is narrow, measuring but "75 inch 

 across its front side, while the naked arm is 1*25 broad, and rather 

 flat, where cut off. From the commencement of the large suckers 

 to the tip, it measures 9'26 inches. It had lost most of its suckers, 

 so that it cannot be identified with certainty. Part of the large 

 suckers and some of the marginal ones still remain, though the horny 

 I'ings are gone ; diameter of large suckers, •50 inch ; of marginal 

 ones, about '12. The suckers have the same form and arrangement 

 as in the larger specimens of Architeuthis. It may, perhaps, belong 

 to Architeuthis inegap)tera, or to a young A. Harveyi. 



No. 21.— Cape Sable specimen. {Architeuthis megapteraV.) 

 Plate XXI. 

 This specimen was found thrown on the shore near Cape Sable, 

 N. S., after a very severe gale, several years ago. It is preserved in 

 alcohol, entire, and in good condition, in the Provincial Museum at 

 Halifax, where it is well exhibited in a large glass jai*. It is the type 

 specimen oi Architeuthis megaptera^ described by me, Sept., 1878.* 

 It is a comparatively small species, its total length being but 43 



* American Journal of Science, xvi, p. 207, 1878. 

 Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. V. 25 January, 1880. 



