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I estimate the combined breadth of the terminal fins in EnoploteutMs cooJcii when 

 recent, taken at the outer angles, to have been not less than 1 foot 4 inches. 



In the desiccation of the body-skin the transverse arrangement of the superficial 

 muscular fasciculi is indicated ; the thinner and more yielding ventral wall is shown 

 by the median longitudinal infolding of that part in the process of drying. 



Considering that so much of the fleshy part of the great hooked Squid was cooked 

 as to serve the appetites of at least three, and perhaps four, of those at table in the 

 Commander's cabin, I infer that a goodly proportion of the body anterior to the fins 

 went to the culinary galley, and that the basal attachments of the fins did not extend, 

 as in Enojjloteuthis lesueurii, to the fore margin of the mantle. 



On the supposition that the proportion in advance of the fins was that which is 

 shown in OnyclioteutMs raptor (PI. XXIX. fig. 1), one may set down the length of the 

 body of EnoploteutMs cookii at 3 feet. The length of the head to the setting-on of the 

 arms would be, according to the same proportions, about 10 inches ; and the length of 

 the longest arm might be 15 inches, of which the terminal half may have been cut off 

 for Hunter's collection. If the outstretched tentacles were each as long as the body, 

 3 feet may be added to the combined length of head and body to give an approximate 

 idea or estimate of the total length of the Cephalopod in question, viz. 6 feet 9 inches. 

 I have ventured on a reduced restoration in fig. 1, PL XXXIII. 



In a work on the Natural History of Chili, of which the second edition appeared in 

 1810, the author, on the authority apparently of the latitude and longitude assigned 

 by Lieut. Cook to the place of capture of his great hook-armed Cuttlefish, includes it 

 in the Chilian fauna ; but, as he adds nothing to the quotation from Hawkesworth's 

 account of the voyage {antea, p. 146), I conclude that he had not received or seen a 

 second specimen of this remarkable species. All that is given relative thereto in 

 Molina's work is, verbatim, as follows : — 



" Oltre alia Seppia officinale si ritrovano nel mare Chilese tre altre specie di Seppie 

 assai singolari. La prima e la Seppia imguiculata, la quale e di gran, mole, ed ha in 

 luogo di succhiatori le brachia, o siano i due lunghi tentacoli armati da un doppio 

 ordine di artigli o unghie acute simili a quelle del gatto, che si ritirano, come esse, in 

 una sorta di fodero. Questa specie e di un gusto delicate, ma non e molto comune 

 in quel mare, dove fu osservata dal eel. Banck nel primo viaggio del Cap. Cook." — ■ 

 Saggio sulla Storia Naturale del Chili, di Gio. Ignazio Molii^a, seconda edizione, 4to, 

 Bologna, p. 175 (1810). 



M. d'Orbigny, referring to the above work, merely observes, with regard to the 

 nomen specificitm, that the term " imguiculata " is objectionable, seeing that it is a 

 character common to the genus, in fact the essential character of the section Enoplo- 

 teutMs. But as to his proposition to substitute the name of the Italian compiler, I think 

 Cephalopodists will agree that in common justice the honoured name of the original 

 describer should be attached thereto. Dr. Leach desired to do honour to the captor of 



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