178 A. # Verrill—Cephalopods of the North Atlantic. 
lished in some of the English magazines.* Before it was 
secured for preservation it had been considerably i ah jured, many 
of the larger suckers having been torn off or mutilat win 
to this fact they were originally described by Mr. Torey as 
destitute of marginal denticulations, but he has recently re- 
examined the specimen, at my request, and now informs me 
that he is satistied that they were all originally denticulated. 
Of this specimen I have seen only the photograph and some 
of the smaller suckers. 
It is stated that six feet of this arm had been destroyed 
before it was preserved, and the captors estimated that they 
left from six to ten feet attached to the creature, which would 
make the total —— between 31 and 35 feet. ’ According to 
me a full series of measurements of this arm, as now pre- 
served. It has contracted excessively in the alcohol, and is now 
only 18 feet and one inch in len oe (instead of 19 feet, its 
ments, when compared with those made while fresh and from 
the photograph, that the shrinkage has been chiefly in length, 
the thickness remaining about the same, but the suckers are 
considerably smaller than the dimensions previously given. 
~ ng all these dimensions with those of the Logie Bay 
men, and calculating the proportions as nearly as possible, 
it isitewe that this specimen was very nearly one-third larger 
than the latter, but the large suckers appear to have been rela- 
tively smaller, for they were hardly one-twelfth larger than in 
* See Annals and Magazine of and “ The 
Field,” Dec. 13, 1873. The central line of this photograph i te veiond tour ook 
quarter times, while four 
