88 COLOSSAL CUTTLEFISHES. 
‘to Copenhagen by Capt. Hygom from this locality in 1855. This 
species was named by Prof. Steenstrup Architeuthis dux.* 
This kind of cuttlefish, called the hooked calmary, is found 
swimming on the high seas, being solitary in its habits, not going 
in schools as the common squid. The end of the body and an 
arm of one of these hooked calmaries, thought by Prof. Owen to 
have belonged to an individual six feet long, are preserved in the 
museum of the College of Surgeons in London where, owing to 
the kindness of Prof. Flower, we had an opportunity of seeing it. 
The arms of this calmary are provided with large hooks arising 
from the centre of the suckers, which must add a peculiar horror 
to the slimy monster. It was found by Banks and Solander, the 
naturalists of Cook’s first voyage, near Cape Horn. It was 
named by Prof. Owen Onychoteuthis Banksii. 
The French naturalists Quoy and Gaimard, as reported by 
Woodward in his ‘“ Manual of Mollusca,” found a dead cuttlefish 
in the Atlantic under the equator, which must have weighed two 
hundred and twenty pounds when perfect. It was floating on the 
surface, and was partly devoured by birds. To the same excellent 
authority we are indebted for the statement that a kind of squid 
called the “sea arrow,” used extensively for bait in the codfishery 
of Newfoundland grows nearly four feet in length. This possibly 
belongs to the genus Ommatostrephes. 
We are indebted to ‘The World of the Sea” by M. Moquin 
Tandon, for the following statements regarding large cuttlefish. 
Pliny notices an enormous cuttlefish which haunted the coast of 
Spain devouring all the fish, and destroying the fishing grounds. 
It weighed seven hundred pounds, and its arms were more than 
thirty feet long. Aristotle speaks of a great calmar more than 
ten feet long which was taken in the Mediterranean. In modern 
times M. Verany speaks of a calmar a yard and a half long, and 
which weighed twenty-four pounds. One was caught near Nice, 
weighing fifteen pounds. An equally large one was found in the 
Adriatic, and its body is still preserved in the museum at Trieste. 
Over twenty years ago a calmar six feet long was caught off the | 
south coast of France; it is still to be seen in the collection of 
the Faculty of Sciences at Montpellier. Peron, a French natural- 
ist, met in the Australian seas a huge cuttlefish with arms more 
*In the proof it is called A Titan, but Prof. S. tioned itt in conversation 
A, dux. 
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