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amine are as follows: the anterior part of the head, with the 
bases of the arms, the beak, lingual ribbon, ete. ; the eight shorter 
arms, but without the suckers, which dropped off in the brine, 
and are now represented only by the strong marginal rings; the 
two long tentacular arms, which are well preserved, with al 
the suckers in place; the tail; portions of the “pen” or inter- 
nal shell; the ink-bag; and pieces of the body. 
The general appearance and form of this species * are well 
shown by plate 11. From the great size of the large suckers on 
the long arms, I judge it to bea male. The body was rela- 
tively stout, and according to the statement of Mr. Harvey, it 
was, when fresh, about seven feet long and five and one-half 
feet in circumference. The “tail” or caudal fin (plate Iv, fig. 
9) is said by Mr. Harvey to have been 22 inches across, but 
the preserved specimen is considerably smaller, owing, un- 
doubtedly, to shrinkage in the brine and alcohol. It is remark- 
able for its broad sagitate form. The posterior termination 
ry Mr. W. Saville Kent, from the popular descriptions of this species, has seen 
ic and ific iz aloteuthis % 
) give it new gene specific names, viz: Meg Harveyi, in a com- 
munication made to the Zoological Society of London, March 3, 1874 (Proceedings 
Zool. Soc., p- 178; see also Nature, vol. ix, p. 375, March 12, and p. 403, March 
19). My identification is based on a comparison of the jaws with the jaws of A. 
monachus, we escribed by Steenstrup in proof-sheets of a pape 
Which is perhaps still unpublished, though printed several years ago, and referred 
to even by Ha: e ment is very close in nearly all respects, but the 
beak of the lower jaw is e ent in Steenstrup’s figure 8 
Specimen was a little larger than the one here described and taken from a 
i 8 and was 
Specimen cast ashore in 1853. Mr. Kent was probably unaware of that speci- 
— he said (Nature, ix, p. 403) that A. monachus “ was instituted for the 
163 tion of two gigantic Cephalo cast on the shores of Jutland in the years 
9 and 1790, and of which popular record alone remains.” 
*Ppears to be erroneous, for Steenstrup, Harting, and Dr. Packard, in their articles 
this subject, all state that the suckers, parts of the arms, and the internal sh 
ee a Were preserved, and they have been figured by Prof. Steenstrup; Harting 
also given a figure of the lower jaw, copied from a figure by Steenstrup. 
ving the 
a is name. 
the Architeuthis dux prove to belong to a genus distinct from this, it 
na: haps be taken as the type of Architeuthis, and in that case the generic 
Prcseag Siven by Kent could be retained, and the two species here descrit oul 
porte called Megaloteuthis monachus and M. princeps, if my identification of the 
Species be correct. 
