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is assigned to the preserved portion of the tentacle, and a diameter of IJ 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. P. Bennett, of English Harbour, Newfoundland, as being 

 " perfectly reliable " : — 



feet. 



Length of body (probably including the head) 10 



Length of the tentacle 42 



Length of one of the ordinary arms 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 



Circumference of the body 7 



„ „ head 4 



Length of the longest cephalic ai'm (fourth) .... 11 



Circumference of its base 1 5 



Diameter of a large sucker 1 



Length of the tentacle 30 



Length of terminal expansion of tentacle 8 



Circumference of stem 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 



' American Naturalist, vol. vii. p. 91 (Feb. 1873). 



' No. 4, 1880. 



' " Der Eingeweidesack entfemt, der Kopf ehenfalls ausgenommen und dessen Haut aufgeschnitten und 

 von der Kdrperhaut getrennt, die Arme mehr oder weniger gesohiidigt, die beiden Fangarme in der Mitte 

 abgescbnitten." — Ibid. p. 65. 



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