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to be the Architeuthia monachus of Steenstrup, is well shown by 

 fig. 1. From the great size of the large suckers on the long arms, 

 I judge it to be a male. The body was relatively stout, and ac- 

 cording to the statement of Mr. Harvey, it was, when fresh, about 

 seven feet long and five and one-half feet in circumference. The 

 portion of the body shown in the photograph appears to have been 

 only about five and one-half feet long, rig 2 



In restoring the figure here presented, 

 the length of the body was reckoned 

 at seven feet, and reduced twenty-two 

 times. The "tail" or caudal fin (fig. 

 2) is said by Mr. Harvey to have been 

 twenty-two inches across, but the pre- 

 served specimen is considerably small- 

 er, owing, undoubtedly, to shrinkage in 

 the brine and alcohol. It is remark- 

 able for its peculiar spear-shaped or 

 broad sagitate form. The posterior 

 termination is unusually acute and the 

 lateral lobes extend forward consider- 

 ably beyond their insertion. In the 

 preserved specimen the total length, 

 from the anterior end of the lateral lobes to the tip of the tail, is 

 twenty-three inches ; from the lateral insertions to the tip nineteen 

 inches ; from the dorsal insertion thirteen and five-tenths inches ; 

 total breadth about fifteen inches; width of lateral lobes six 

 inches. The body, as seen in the photograph, is badly collapsed 

 and it must be a matter of great difficulty to obtain the true 

 diameter o/ the body in any of these large squids, owing to the 



