A. EF. Verrill— Gigantic Cephalopod. 213 
Art. XXXII.— Brief Contributions to Zoology from the Museum 
of Yale College. No. XXXV.—Notice of the oceurrence of 
another Gigantic Cephalopod (Archit-uthis) on the coast of New- 
Joundland, in December, 1874; by A. E. VERRILL. 
_ Tam now able to add some important information concern- 
ing an additional specimen which was cast ashore last winter at 
Grand Bank, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland. As in the case of 
several of the previous specimens, I am deeply indebted to the 
Rev. M. Harvey for information concerning this one, and also 
for the jaws and one of the large suckers of the tentacular arms, 
these being the only parts preserved. Although this specimen 
went ashore in December, Mr. Harvey did not hear of the event 
until March, owing to the unusual interruption of travel by the 
severity of the winter. He informs me that Mr. George 
Simms, Magistrate of Grand Bank, has stated in a letter to him 
that he examined the creature a few hours after it went ashore, 
but not before it had been mutilated by the removal of the 
tail by the fishermen, who finally cut it up as food for their 
humerous dogs; and that the long tentacular arms were 
26 feet long and 16 inches in circumference (probably meaning 
at their broad terminal portion); the short arms were “‘ one- 
cumference,” (evidently meaning the head, behind the bases of 
the arms); the length of the body “from the junction to the 
tail” was 10 feet, (apparently meaning from the anterior edge 
of the mantle to the origin of the caudal fins). He thinks the 
tail, which had been removed, was about one-third as long as 
the body, but this is probably overestimated, judging from the 
Logie Bay specimen (No. 5 of my former papers), in which it 
* This Journal, vol. ix, pp. 123, 177, Plates II-V. See also the American Nat- 
+In a eaeurait te pielenied wn aga eon 1875, M. Paul Gervais has 
also given a s i ously kno 
eat ea of the gigantic ce P vali : portib 
ashore. He also quotes the brief notice of the animal by M. Vélain 
rendus, t. xxx, p. 1002, Seance du April 19, 1875). It is stated that this ex- 
ngs to the ith Ommastrephes. 80 f 
