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Ommastrephes, which measured not less than 22 feet 10} inches in length from the 
end of the body to that of the tentacles” !. 
In a subsequent account? M. Vélain notes in this locality two species of Squid 
(Ommastrephes) which are seen to dart, like arrows, from the surface of the sea, and 
afford food to the penguins (Eudyptes chrysolopha) ; also a small Poulpe, taken in the 
sea which occupies the crater, and which is referred to Octopus vulgaris. This is 
captured by the fishermen of the island for bait; and the same men testified to the 
apparition nearly every year of a gigantic Cephalopod. Fortunately, on the 2nd of 
November, 1874, one of these molluscous giants was cast by unusual storm-waves upon 
the northern beach of the island, and became the subject, as it lay, of the photographer 
of the expedition, M. Cazin. The photograph is copied in the plate, fig. 8, given on 
p: 81 of M. Vélain’s ‘‘ Observations” in the undercited volume of the ‘ Archives de 
Zoologie,’ and forms the subject of the cut, fig. 3. 
Of this large Cephalopod the acetabula are said to be provided “ with a corneous 
hoop, finely denticulated,” on which character, and their disposition upon the arms, 
1 «Dans les premiers jours de Novembre, un raz de marée 4 jeté sur la chaussée du nord un Calmar du 
groupe des Ommastrephes, qui ne mesurait pas moins de 7™15, de l’extrémité du cornet a celle des bras 
tentaculaires.”—“ Observations effectuées a Vile de Saint Paul,’ Comptes Rendus des Séances de V Académie 
des Sciences, t. xxx, 1875, p. 998. 
2 «Observations générales sur la Faune des deux iles, suivies d’une description des Mollusques,” Archives 
de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale, by H. de Lacaze-Duthiers, Svo, tome xvi,, 1877, p. 1, 
