PEOr. OWEN ON NEW AND EAEE CEPHALOPODA. 



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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. Velain notes in this locality two species of Squid 

 [Ommantreplies) which are seen to dart, like arrows, from the surface of the sea, and 

 afford food to the penguins [Eudyptes cliry^olopha) ; 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 tlie 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. Velain's "Observations" in the undercited volume of the 'Archives de 

 Zoologie,' and forms the subject of the cut, fig. 3. 



Fi;,'. 3. 



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Of this laige Cephalopod the acetabula are said to be provided " with a corneous 

 hoop, finely denticulated," on which character, and their disposition upon the arms, 



' " Dans les premiers jours de Novembre, un raz de mare'e a jete sur la chaussee dii nord un Calmar du 

 groupe des Ommastrephes, qui ne mesurait pas moins de 7"'15, de rextrcmite du cornet a oelle des bras 

 tentaculaires." — " Observations effeetuees a Tile de Saint Paul," Comptes Eeiidus des Seances de VAcadimie 

 des Sciences, t. Ixxx. 1875, p. 998. 



" " ObservatioQB generales sur la Paune des deux iles, suivies d'une description des MoUusques," Archives 

 de Zoologie Expeiimentale et Generale, by H. de Laeaze-Duthiers, Svo, tome xvi., 1877, p. 1. 



