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length of body seven feet, circumference five feet, tail fan-shaped, 
pointed at the middle extremity, and between extremes of ex- 
tended appendages measures upwards of two feet. Two tubes run 
the whole length of the body, one of which contains the inky fluid, 
the other water: The eyes of this individual have been destroyed, 
but the socket of one is attached to the neck, the diameter of 
which is four inches. In the centre of the head, there is a pow- 
‘erful beak of black and orange color. In shape the beak exactly 
resembles a parrot’s ; 
Around the head there are eight large arms each from six to 
seven feet in length: two of which are nine inches in circumfer- 
ence ; two of eight inches; and five of seven inches. These ten- 
tacles are covered with suckers on the lower side for their whole 
length, all denticulated, about one hundred sucking cups upon each 
arm. ‘There are also two. long slender tentacles, each measuring 
these Jonger tentacles are paddle-shaped, and armed with about 
eighty denticulated suckers. In this case both the greater and 
the smaller suckers are armed with teeth. 
Photographs taken by Messrs. Parsons and McKenna, St. John, 
on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1873. A very respectable person, by the name 
feet. He tells me, moreover, that the monsters are edible. 5 
The man Picot who produced the first specimen of a tentacle, 
it was about one-third the entire length of the creature’s body. 
[We would refer our readers to an account of colossal cuttle- 
fishes on p. 87 of vol. vii of this journal, and the notice of Archi- 
teuthis dux found in the North Atlantic. Professor Verrill of 
‘Yale College writes us that he has received both jaws and two 
suckers of the Newfoundland cuttle-fish. The beak, he says, agrees 
nearly with the figure of that of A. duz, on p. 93, of vol. vii, but 
the jaws are somewhat larger, he thinks. — Eps. ] 
A New (?) Zexzrtan Marre Borer.— In the description of a 
supposed new maple borer on page 57 of the January number, I 
recognize an old acquaintance which vies with Chrysobothris 
' femorata in killing the shade maples of the Mississippi Valley, 
and which is not unfrequently found in the eastern states. I have 
been familiar with its work for nine years, and it has long been 
