422 A. E. VerriU — North American Cephalopods. 



Octopus Bairdii. — Additional specimens. 



925 



939 



945 



946 



947 



951 



■952 



994 



997 



998 



1025 



1026 



1028 



1033 



1035 



1045 



1047 



Locality. 



Off Martha's Vineyard. 



S. i W. 86 m. from Gay Head, 



S. bv E. ^ E. 98 m. from Gay Head, 



S. by W. f W. 84i m. from Gay Head 



S. by W. f W. 871 m. from Gay Head,_.. 



S. by W. I W. 89 m. from Oay Head, 



S. 85 m. from Gay Head, 



S. i E. 87i m. from Gay Head, . . 



S.S.W. i W. 104+m. from Gay Head 



S.S.W. i W. lO.si m. from Gay Head, 



S.S.W. i W. 102i m. from GaV Head, 



S.S.W. i W. 95 m. from Gay Head, j 216 



S.S.W i W. 98. V m. from Gay Head... 

 S.S.E. f E. 108i m. from Gay Head, . . 

 S.S E. * E. 106"m. from Gay Head,__. 

 S.S.E. I E. XQU m. from Gay Head, .. 



Off Delaware Bay, 



Off Delaware Bay 



224 

 258 

 202 

 241 

 312 

 219 

 388 

 368 

 335 

 302 



1 



410 



183 



120 



312 



156 



Specimens. 

 No. Sex. 



sand, mud 

 mud 



sd., gravel 

 sand 

 mud 

 sand 



^ : 3 j. 3 

 : 1 ? : 1 D- 



: 1 3 

 :5^;2j. 



?:43 

 : 25 

 ■.2i 

 $ 

 S 

 : 1 ? 



3:11.2 



Architeuthis Harveyi VerrOi. (No. 27). 



After the preceding pages were put in type, another specimen of 

 ArchiteutJiis was secured. 



This was found dead, floating at the surface, near tlie shore, at 

 Portugal Cove, a few miles from St. John's, Newfoundland, Novem- 

 ber 10, T881, It was obtained by Mr. Morris, who had a photograph 

 of it made by Mr. E. I-yons, of St. John's, and then shipped it to 

 New York, packed in ice, by the steamer " Catima," Capt. Davies. 

 Mr. Morris has given a brief description of this specimen in an article 

 in the New York Herald of Nov. 25, 1881. In Harper's Weekly of 

 Dec. 10, accompanying an article on the same subject, apparently by 

 the same writer, there is a wood-cut, apparently copied from the 

 photograph.* 



The specimen was purchased by Mr. E. M. Worth, and preserved, 

 in alcohol, at his museum, 101 Bowery, N. Y., where I had a good 

 opportunity to examine it about two weeks after it had been put in 

 alcohol. 



Although this is more nearly complete than any specimen hitherto 

 brought to this country, the arms and suckers are not so well 

 preserved, as in some of the other examples. All the sessile arms 

 have lost more or less of their tips, so tliat the actual length cannot 

 be given, and many of their suckers are either injured or lost ; the 



* This figure, thougli poor, gives a fair idea of the general appearance of the crea- 

 ture as it would look if lying flabby and collapsed on the shore. The peculiar appear- 

 ance of the caudal fin was due to mutilation of that organ. 



