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lopods, which enables him to correct some of his previous notions about 
them. The specimen, which was alive and nearly perfect when found, was 
•cast ashore, after a severe gale, at Catalina, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, 
on 24th September last. After being exhibited for two or three days at 
St. John’s, it was sent in brine to New York, and exhibited in a tank full of 
alcohol at the Aquarium in that city. 
Prof. Veri-ill says (“ Amer. Journ. Sci.,” November 1877, p. 425) : “Although 
somewhat mutilated, and not in a very good state of preservation when 
received, it is of great interest,, being without doubt the largest and best 
specimen ever preserved. It proves to be Architeutliis princeps, formerly 
described by me from the jaws alone, in this Journal (‘Amer. Journ. Sci.,’ 
vol. ix. p. 181). The jaws agree well in form and colour with the large 
pair there figured, and are fully equal to them in size, being apparently larger 
in proportion to the body than in A. monachus ; so that my estimate of the 
probable size of the body of the former specimen was much too great. The 
Catalina specimen when fresh was 9-5 feet from tip of tail to base of 
arms; circumference of body 7 feet; length of tentacular arms 30 feet; 
length of longest sessile arms (ventral ones) 11 feet; circumference 
at base 17 inches; length of upper mandible 5-25 inches; diameter of 
large suckers 1 inch; diameter of eye-sockets 8 inches. (The eyes 
were destroyed by the captors.) It agrees in general appearance with A. 
monachus, but the caudal fin is broader, and less acutely pointed ; it was 
2 feet and 9 inches broad when fresh, and broadly sagittate in form. 
The rims of the large suckers are white, with very acutely-serrate margins ; 
and the small smooth-rimmed 'suckers, with their accompanying tubercles, 
are distantly scattered along most of the inner face of the tentacular arms, 
the last ones noticed being 19 feet from the tips. The sessile arms 
present considerable disparity in length and size, the dorsal ones being 
somewhat shorter and smaller than the others ; the serrations are smaller 
on the inner than on the outer edge of the suckers.” — Although Professor 
Verrill has found himself compelled, on better acquaintance, to reduce con- 
siderably the size of his monster (which he formerly thought to be 19 
feet long in the body), the measurements here given leave him still a 
sufficiently formidable “ Devil-fish,” and it is probably with a view to his 
suitable appearance in that character that, as we are told by Professor 
Verrill, the animal has been “ prepared ” by a taxidermist, “ who has inserted 
two large, round, red eyes close together on the top of the head ! ” 
