VI. The Cephalopods of the Northeastern Coast of America. 
By A. E. Verrill. 
Part II. the smaller cephalopods, including the “ squids'” and 
THE OCTOP1, WITH OTHER ALLIED FORMS. 
Before proceeding with the special subjects of this Part it seems 
desirable to describe in detail an important, though young and small, 
example of one of the gigantic species of Architeuthis , as a supple- 
ment to the first part of this article. 
Description of a young example of Architeuthis Harveyi. 
Plates XXYI and XXXVIII. 
This specimen, which I have designated as No. 24, was received 
subsequent to the publication of the previous part of this article. 
It was found, dead and mutilated, floating at the surface, at the 
Grand Bank of Newfoundland, April, 1880, by Capt. O. A. Whitten and 
crew of the schooner “ Wm. H. Oakes,” and by them it was well pre- 
served and presented to the U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries. 
It is of great interest because it furnishes the means of completing 
the description of parts that were lacking or badly preserved in the 
larger specimens, especially the sessile arms and the buccal mem- 
branes. 
The specimen consists of a part of the head with all the arms 
attached, and with the suckers in a good state of preservation on all 
the arms, though the tips of all the short arms, except one, are 
destroyed, and all of the arms are more or less injured on their outer 
surfaces. The jaws and buccal membranes are intact, with the odon- 
tophore and oesophagus. Parts of the cartilaginous skull, with some 
of the ganglia and the collapsed eyes are present, but the external 
surface of the head is gone and the eyelids are badly mutilated. No 
part of the body was preserved. The tentacular-arms are in good 
preservation, with all the suckers present. Unfortunately the distal 
portions of both the ventral arms had been destroyed, so that the 
sex cannot be determined. The color of the head, so far as pre- 
served, and of the external surfaces of the sessile arms is much like 
that of the common squids, — a rather dark purplish brown, due to 
minute crowded specks of that color, thickly distributed, with a pink- 
Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. V. 32 June, 1880. 
