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officers,* proposed to establish a species for this specimen, which they 

 named Loligo Bouyeri. The figure is very imperfect, but evidently 

 represents a ten-armed cuttle-fish, though only eight arms are shown, 

 and the tail is represented as truncated. In fact, there is nothing 

 about the figure or description sufficient to indicate specific, or exact 

 generic characters. The eight short arms, shown in the figure, are 

 stout, tapered, and less than half the length of the head and body 

 together. It was more probably a species of .4rcAeYew^A2s, to judge 

 from the caudal fin, described as consisting of two rounded lobes, of 

 small size. It may be designated as A. Bouyeri^ provisionally. 



In the Journal de Zoologie, vol. iv, No. 2, p. 88, 1875, M. Paul 

 Gervais has given a partial summary of the gigantic Cephalopods 

 previously known, and has mentioned an additional species {Archi- 

 teuthls Moucliezi Yelain), of which portions were brought to Paris 

 by M. Velain, from the Island of St. Paul, Indian Ocean, where it 

 was cast ashore in November. He also quotes the brief notice of 

 the animal by M, Velain (in Comptes Rendus, t. Ixxx, p. 1002, Seance 

 du April ] 9, 1875). It is stated that this example belongs to the same 

 group with Ommastrephes. A description and a rude figure of it, made 

 from a photograph taken in the position in which it lay upon the shore, 

 has also been published by M. Velain in the Arch, de Zool. Exper., 

 vol. vi, p. 83, 1877. The figure has been copied in Tryon's Manual 

 of Conchology, vol. i, PI. 82. According to this figure the tentacular- 

 arms were very long and the short arms were truncated, probably 

 owing to mutilation. One of the tentacular-arms was saved, and, with 

 the beak, is preserved in Paris. The caudal fin was narrow and lan- 

 ceolate, adhering to the sides of the body by its entire length. In the 

 latter feature this is very diflerent from any of the northern species.f 



In the Archives de Zool. Experimentale, vol. vi, 1877, M. Velain 

 has proposed a new genus {Mouchezla) for this specimen. The 

 peculiarity of the pen appears to be the only character, of any 

 impo]-tance, referred to by him. 



In The Zoologist, London, 2d Series, No. 118, p. 4526, July, 1875, 

 there is an article entitled, " Notice of a gigantic Cephalopod [Dino- 

 teuthis proboscideus), which was stranded at Dingle, in Kerry, tAvo 

 hundred years ago. By A. G. More, F.L.S." The article is chiefly 

 a reprint of the rude, but interesting, popular accounts written at the 

 time of the capture, and upon these Mr. More attempted to found a 

 new genus and species. The character which he mainly relied upon, 



* See Comptes Rendus, Acad. Sei., vol. 53, pp. 1263-7, L861. 



\ See also Tiyou's ilanual of Conchology, i, pp. 8!) and 184, 18V'J. 



