THE ECONOMIC MOLLUSCA OF ACADIA. 
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Works of Reference. 
The Cephalopods of the North-eastern Coast of America. 
By A. E. Verrill. Part II., The Smaller Cephalopods. 
Trans. Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 
V., 1880, pp. 259-446. Also in Rep. U. S. Fish Commis- 
sion for 1879 (published 1882), pp. 211-450. Also short 
paper in American Naturalist, Yol. VIII., 1874, pp. 
167-174. 
The Squid of the Newfoundland Banks in its relation to the 
American Grand Bank Cod Fisheries. By H. L. Osborn. 
American Naturalist, Vol. XV., 1881, pp. 366-372. 
Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals. Pp. 687, et seq. 
2. Loligo Pealei Lesueur. 
Long-finned Squid. 
[Loligo, the ancient name; Pealei, for R. Peale of Philadelphia.] 
Distribution, (a) General ; — South Carolina to Massa- 
chusetts Bay. Cape Ann, St. Croix River. 
(h) In Acadia ; — St. Croix River. 
[In June, 1886, the writer found two specimens of this 
species in a weir at the Devil’s Head in the St. Croix River. 
The only other evidence of its presence in our waters that 
we have been able to gather, has been obtained from Mr. 
Henry Frye, of Frye’s Island, Charlotte County, a close and 
accurate observer of all such matters. He says that we have 
in our waters two kinds of Squid, the “ short-tailed and the 
long-tailed.” The former must be 0. illecebrosa , and the- 
latter can be only the species we are considering. It had 
not previously been known to naturalists to occur north of 
Cape Ann, and its distribution and relative abundance in 
our waters are entirely unknown. 
It is altogether likely that the specimens from the St. 
Croix River belong to the variety borealis of Verrill, which 
the latter established for his specimens from Cape Ann, and 
which he calls “nothing more than a local or geographical 
variety.”] 
