214 A. E. Verrill—Gigantie Cephalopod. 
was about eee but ioe may have been cut off above its 
in my pos- 
session, 1s one inch in diameter, across ae de cents rim, 
and in form and structure agrees closely with those previeg 
geanetye Pe figured by me from the tentacular arms of Nos 
and 5 (vol. ix, Plate rv, figs. 11, 12, 
* The | ibs are still attached together, in their natural poses 
by the cartilages.* They agree very closely in form with t 
large jaws of Architeuthis princeps V. (No. 10), figured on Plate 
V, vol. ix, but they are about one-tenth smaller. The upper 
jaw measures 111™ in height (front to back) ; 88™™ from tip of 
beak to front edge of palatine laminz ; 20™" from tip of beak 
to the base of the notch. The lower jaw measures 96™™ in 
total length ; 80™™ from ep of beak to front edge of lamine ; 
19™ from tip to base of note 
From the close agreement of these j jaws with those of A, prin- 
ceps, there can be very little doubt that they belong to that 
species; and if so the measurements given will be of great im- 
portance as affording additional knowledge of the approximate 
form and proportions of this, the largest known species 
Nore.—In “ The Boole,” London, 2d Series, No. 118, p. 4526, July, 1875, 
there is an article entitled, ‘‘ Notice of a gigantic Daphadaod (Dinoteuth is pro- 
boscideus), which was ee ciied . e Dingle, in Kerry, two hundred years ago B 
A.G More, F.L.S.’ cle is chiefly a reprint of the rude popular accounts 
written ai f the capture, and upon e Mr. More attempts to 
foun ew genus and species. The one character Angers he relies upon as of 
generic value, is the power of proj the e form of & proboscis. 
But he apparently does not know that this is habitually done ete! the various ier 
mon species of Ommastrephes, Loligo, etc., and perhaps by all ten-armed cephato 
. There is no reason to suppose , from the a ——- that ‘his 
achus. It 
BES 
arms 
ngth, and were as thick as a man’s leg, and had two rows s of 
serrated suckers; the proboscis (buccal mass with beak) was he a Ae of a man’s 
fist ;” the Sag was “like an eagle’s but broader.” The whol Ba 
to have large as a large horse e measurements giv vat indi 
men seuintion: ideo several of the American examples, and but litile, if pk "Tanger 
than our No. 5, from ie Bay. 
In the August number of the “' Annals and Magazine of Natural History et 
xvi, p. 123, the same writ briefly deaccibed the beak, and - 
tentacles and arms of another specimen taken off pots “Taland; on the west coast 
il. The tentacular arms are said to have feet long 
: 9 inches; the central suckers nearly 1 inch in 
diameter ; those of the outer rows ‘5 of an inch; one short arm id to 
been 8 6) 15 inches in e€ + the ba: 
parts of - 
* These will be gard nn ail on he gg copblopat, now n 
paration for ee rs cademy of 
