478 Bev. Canon Norman's Revision 



Genus 2. Architeuthus, Steenstrup. 



14. Architeuthus monachus (Steenstrup), Verrill. 



Architeuthus monachus, Steenstrup, Skand. Naturf. Forhand. vii. Mode, 



1856, p. 182 (name only). 

 Architeuthis dux, Harting, Verhandl. k. Akad. AVeten. ix. p. 11, pi. i. 

 DinoteutAis proboscideus, A. G. Mora, Zoologist, 1875, p. 452(3. 

 Architeuthis dux, A. G. More, Aim. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xvi. 



1875, p. 12.3. 

 Architeuthis monachus, Verrill, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xvi. 



1875, p. 268; Trans. Connect. Acad. Sci. v. 1880, p. 238 ; Amer. 



Journ. Sci. and Arts, ix. 1875, p. 124, pis. ii., iii., iv. figs. 9-18. 



A species of Architeuthus has occurred several times on our 

 coasts, and the species is considered by Verrill, who has seen 

 more specimens of this genus than any other naturalist, to be 

 Architeuthus monachus, Steenstrup. 



" The mutilated carcase of a huge Cephalopod, perhaps 

 belonging to Steenstrup's species [Architeuthis monachus), 

 was stranded in 1860 or 1861 between Hillswick and Scallo- 

 way, on the west of Shetland. From a communication 

 received by Prof. Allman it appears that the tentacles were 

 16 feet long, the pedal arms about half that length, and the 

 mantle-sac 7 feet ; the mantle was terminated by fins ; one of 

 the suckers examined by Prof. Allman was three quarters of 

 an inch in diameter." [Jeffreys, Brit. Conch, v. p. 124.) 



In the < Zoologist ' for July 1875, p. 4526, Mr. A. G. More 

 called attention to a gigantic Cephalopod which was cast 

 ashore at Dingle, in Kerry, 200 years ago. It was described 

 as 19 feet in total length ; the long arms were mutilated, the 

 remaining part being 11 feet long and as thick as a man's 

 arm ; the short arms varied from 6 to 8 feet in length and 

 were as thick as a man's leg, and had two rows of large ser- 

 rated suckers ; the proboscis or buccal mass with beak was 

 capable of projection and of the " size of a man's hand," the 

 beak was like an eagle's, but broader. The whole animal is 

 said to have been as large as a large horse. Mr. More named 

 this specimen Dinoteuthis lyroboscideus ; but Verrill writes : — 

 " There is no reason to suppose, from the published accounts, 

 that this specimen differed in any way from Architeuthis 

 dux" 



" On the 26th April, 1875, a very large calamary was met 

 with on the north-west of Boffin Island, Connemara. The 

 crew of a ' curragh ' (a boat made like a ' coracle ' with 

 wooden ribs covered with tarred canvas) observed to seaward 

 a large floating mass surrounded by gulls. They pulled out 

 to it, believing it to be a wreck, but to their astonishment 

 found it was an enormous cuttle-fish, lying perfectly still, as 



