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allied in many respects. The other parts have been drawn 

 directly from the photographs and specimens. 3 



Mr. Harvey has published popular accounts of this specimen 

 and the previously captured arm of a still larger one, in an inter- 

 esting article in the Maritime Monthly Magazine of St. John, N. 

 B., for March, 1874, and in several newspapers. 4 These articles, 

 and extracts from them, have been widely copied in the news- 

 papers and magazines. To him we are, therefore, mainly indebted 

 for these latest and most important additions to our knowledge 

 of these remarkable animals. The preserved parts of this speci- 

 men (No. 5) which I have been able to examine are as follows: 

 the anterior part of the head, with the bases of the arms, the 

 beak, lingual ribbon, etc. ; the eight shorter arms, but without 

 the suckers, which dropped off in the brine, and are now repre- 

 sented only by the strong marginal rings ; the two long tentacular 

 arms, which are well preserved, with all the suckers in place ; the 

 tail; portions of the "pen" or internal shell; the ink-bag and 

 pieces of the body. 



Since this is the most complete specimen hitherto obtained, it 

 will be first described as a standard for comparison with the other 

 less complete ones. 



The general appearance and form of this species, 5 which appears 



