262 ZOOLOGY. 



have been found at sea, or cast ashore at Newfoundland and 

 the Danish coast ; or their jaws occur in the stomach of 

 sperm Avhales, as squid of all sizes form a large proportion of 

 the food of sperm whales, dolphins, porpoises, and other 

 Cetaceans provided with teeth. The largest cuttle-fish 

 known is ArchiteutMs princeps VerrUl, the body of which 

 must be about six and a half metres (nineteen feet) in length. 



and nearly two metres 

 (five feet, nine inches) 

 in circumference. The 

 two longer arms are & 

 metres long. Architeu- 

 tMs tnonachus Steen- 

 strup has a body about 

 two metres (seven feet) 

 long, and the two long- 

 er arms s«ven metres 

 (twenty-four feet) 

 long. A BtiU larger 

 individual was esti- 

 mated by Terrill to be 

 in total length about 

 fourteen metres (forty- 



Pig. 219.— Octopus BairdU,r)BtnTB.l size, dorsaland f„,,_ r„„+\ Tj- ,% „„™^ 

 lateral view. Gulf of Maine— After VerriU. ^^^^ ICet). It IS Some- 



times thrown ashore 

 on the coast of Xewfoundlaad and Labrador, and in one in- 

 stance attacked two men in a boat. 



The Octopiis (Fig. 218) and Argonauta represent the 

 eight-armed forms. 



