198 A. E. Verrill — North Amerieav Cephalopods. 



decidedly shorter than the head and body togetlier, and scarcely as 

 long as the body alone, all bearing appai-ently similar suckers ; their 

 tips slender and acute. Tentacular-arms, in extension, about four 

 times as long as the short ones ; about three times as long as the 

 head and body together. Caudal fin small, less than one-third the 

 length of the mantle, sagittate in form, with the narrow lateral lobes 

 extending forward beyond their insertions; the posterior end tapering 

 to a long acute tip. Jaws with smaller notch and lobe than in A. 

 princeps. Suckers of the sessile arms (so far as seen) with numerous 

 acute teeth all around the circumference, all similar in shape, but 

 those on the inner margin smaller than those on the outer. Sexual 

 characters are not yet determined. 



Special description of the specimen, JSfo. 5. — The preserved parts of 

 this specimen (see p. 184), examined by me, are as follows: The 

 anterior part of the head, with the bases of the arms, the beak, 

 lingual ribbon, etc. ; the eight shorter arms, but without the suckers, 

 which dropped oif in the brine, and are now represented only by a 

 few of the detached marginal rings; the two long tentacular-arms, 

 which are well preserved, with all the suckers in place ; the caudal 

 fin ; portions of the ' pen ' or internal shell ; the ink-bag ; and pieces 

 of the body. 



The general appearance and form of this species* are well shown 

 by Plates XIII and XIV. The body was relatively stout. Accord- 

 ing to the statement of Mr. Harvey, it was, when fresh, about 213*^'" 



* Mr. W. Saville Kent, from the popular descriptions of this species, gave it new 

 generic and specific names, viz : Meyaloteuthis Harieyi, in a communication made to 

 the Zoological Society of London, March 3, 1874 (Proceedings Zool. Soc , p. 178 ; see 

 also Nature, vol. ix, p. 375, March 12, and p. 403, March 19). My former identifica- 

 tion was based on a comparison of the jaws with the jaws of A. monachus, well fig- 

 ured and described by Steenstrup in proof-sheets of a paper which is still unpublished, 

 though printed several years ago, and referred to by Hartiug. The agreement of the 

 jaws is very close in nearly all respects, but the beak of the lower jaw is a little more 

 divergent in Steenstrup's figure. His specimen was a little larger than the one here 

 described and was taken from a specimen cast ashore nt Jutland, in 1853. Mr. Kent 

 was probably unacquainted with Steenstrup's notice of that specimen when he said 

 (Nature, ix, p. 403) that A. monachus "was instituted for the reception of two gigantic 

 Cephalopods, cast on the shores of Jutland in the years 1G39 and 1790, and of 

 which popular record alone remains." In his second communication to tlie Zoological 

 Society of London, March 18, 1874, (Proc, p. 490), he states (on the authoriiy of 

 Crosse and Fischer) that a third specimen "was stranded on the coast of Jutland in 

 1854, and upon the pharynx and beak of this, the only parts preserved: the same 

 authority founded his species Architeuthis dux." The specimen here referred to is 



