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is assigned to the preserved portion of the tentacle, and a diameter of 1} inch to the 
largest tentacular acetabulum. Mr. Alexander Murray, Provincial Geologist of New- 
foundland, agrees, from observation of the preserved specimens, with Mr. Verrill in these 
admeasurements. 
Dr. Packard* has assigned the name Architeuthis princeps to Mr. Harvey’s great 
Newfoundland Teuthid; but no generic characters are noted. 
Mr. A. Verrill, in the paper above cited, gives an instance of a Squid captured in 
Coomb’s Cove, Fortune Bay, in the year 1872, and quotes the following admeasure- 
ments, made by the Hon. T. R. Bennett, of English Harbour, Newfoundland, as being 
** perfectly rcliable ” :— 
feet. 
Length of body (probably including the head) . . . . . . 10 
Henrihjotthestentaclejaas.) aeteewl cis fe cena eee) 7ee ee 42 
hength ofone.of theordinaryvarms -...... 2 «.% % = + 6 
The cups on the tentacles were “surrounded by a serrated edge, like the teeth of a 
hand-saw.” 
Of another specimen, taken in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, September 24th, 1877, 
the following admeasurements are recorded :— 
feet. inches. 
Length of the body to the base of the arms . . .. . 9 5 
Circnmienen ces ota le hod ype nas oa icit ekucius- amie: tue 7 0 
Bs Se DCAM we PBM AS, cote Ce Yama Ube bck 4 0) 
Length of the longest cephalic arm (fourth) . .. . 11 0 
Civcnimierence omits base | os fai 3 6 | 2 3 Sos 1 5 
Diameter of a large sucker Eg ae ae dts ae 1 
Menethiot thetentacler “lien Ge ee 30 0 
Length of terminal expansion of tentacle . ... . 0 8 
Wizeumterencetonstermistag:ih-ehy se t-koest ahi ade fer 0 5 
The above admeasurements are given on the authority of the Rev. M. Harvey. 
In the ‘Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschenden Freunde zu Berlin,’ 
Dr. F. Hilgendorf records observations of a huge Teuthid exhibited for money at Yedo, 
Japan, in 1873. It unfortunately, when seen by the author, lacked both the head and 
abdominal sac; the arms also were more or less injured; and the tentacles had been 
amputated at mid-length*. In the arrangement in double series of the horn-lined 
1 American Naturalist, vol. vii. p. 91 (Feb. 1873). 
* No. 4, 1880. : 
3 “Ter Eingewcidesack entfernt, der Kopf ebenfalls ausgenommen und dessen Haut aufgeschnitten und 
yon der Kérperhaut getrennt, die Arme mehr oder weniger geschidigt, die beiden I angarme in der Mitte 
abgeschnitten.”—Jbid. p. 65. 
vou. x1.—Part vy. No. 5.—June, 1881. 2D 
