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(4). A pair of jaws and two of the suckers were recently for- 
warded to me from the Smithsonian Institution. ese were re- 
ceived from Rev. A. tas cer writes that they were taken from 
a specimen that ¢ e at Bonavista Bay; that it measured 
thirty-two si in Tength (probably the entire paemaar including 
more or less the arms); an out six feet in ¢ circumference. 
This jaw is a and broad, but wh thinner than that of No. 1, 
and without the deep notch and angular lobe seen in that speci- 
men. It probably belongs to the Architeuthis dux of Steenstrup, 
or at ee to the same species as the jaw figured by Dr.. — 
(5). maller specimen, captured in December, in Logis 
about ues miles from St. John, in herring nets. Of this I hate 
a pte in a letter to Dr. awson, from M. Harvey, Esq., 
o has also published a brief account of it in the “ Morning 
Chronicle, ” of St. John. The letter is acompanied by two photo- 
long, and between five and six feet in circumference; the caudal 
fin was twenty-two inches broad, but short, thick, and emarginate: 
posteriorly on each side, the en nd of the bod being acute; the 
base ; the A ees were 9, 8 and 7 inches. These hock arms taper 
to slender acute tips, and leg bears about 100 large, bell-shaped 
sree with serrated margins. Each of the long arms bear, 
about 160 suckers on the broad terminal portion, “all of which 
are aectinbctet the largest ones, which form two regular alter- 
nating rows, of twelve each, are about an inch in diameter. 
in 
tion of the arm, ney st 8 large suckers, as shown in the photo- 
graphs, is not so lon ring, rs acute, but this may be 
