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 whales, 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 Architeuthis princeps Verrill, 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 - are 9 
metres long. Architeu- 
this monachus Steen- 
strup has a body about 
two metres (seven feet) 
long, and the two long- 
“er arms seven metres 
(twenty-four feet) 
long. A still larger 
individual was esti- 
mated by Verrill to be 
in total length about 
fourteen metres (forty- 
Fig, 219.—Octopus Bairdti, natural size, dorsal and * 
latestl view, Gulf of Maing.—After Verrill, four feet). It is some- 
times thrown ashore 
on the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, and in one in- 
stance attacked two men in a boat. 
The. Octopus (Fig. 218) and Argonauta represent the 
eight-armed forms. 
