. Descriptions of some new and rare Cephalopoda. Cephalopoda. PEOr. OWEN ON NEW AND EAEE CEPHALOPODA. 159 Ommastrephes, which measured not less than 22 feet 10^ inches in length from the end of the body to that of the tentacles"^. In a subsequent account^ M. Velain notes in this locality two species of Squid [Ommantreplies) which are seen to dart, like arrows, from the surface of the sea, and afford food to the penguins [Eudyptes cliry^olopha); also a small Poulpe, taken in the sea which occupies the crater, and which is referred to Octopus vulgaris. This is captured by the fishermen of t
. Descriptions of some new and rare Cephalopoda. Cephalopoda. PEOr. OWEN ON NEW AND EAEE CEPHALOPODA. 159 Ommastrephes, which measured not less than 22 feet 10^ inches in length from the end of the body to that of the tentacles"^. In a subsequent account^ M. Velain notes in this locality two species of Squid [Ommantreplies) which are seen to dart, like arrows, from the surface of the sea, and afford food to the penguins [Eudyptes cliry^olopha); also a small Poulpe, taken in the sea which occupies the crater, and which is referred to Octopus vulgaris. This is captured by the fishermen of tlie island for bait; and the same men testified to the apparition nearly every year of a gigantic Cephalopod. Fortunately, on the 2nd of November, 1874, one of these molluscous giants was cast by unusual storm-waves upon the northern beach of the island, and became the subject, as it lay, of the photographer of the expedition, M. Cazin. The photograph is copied in the plate, fig. 8, given on p. 81 of M. Velain's "Observations" in the undercited volume of the 'Archives de Zoologie,' and forms the subject of the cut, fig. 3. Fi;,'. 3. m. Of this laige Cephalopod the acetabula are said to be provided " with a corneous hoop, finely denticulated," on which character, and their disposition upon the arms, ' " Dans les premiers jours de Novembre, un raz de mare'e a jete sur la chaussee dii nord un Calmar du groupe des Ommastrephes, qui ne mesurait pas moins de 7"'15, de rextrcmite du cornet a oelle des bras ;—" Observations effeetuees a Tile de Saint Paul," Comptes Eeiidus des Seances de VAcadimie des Sciences, t. Ixxx. 1875, p. 998. " " ObservatioQB generales sur la Paune des deux iles, suivies d'une description des MoUusques," Archives de Zoologie Expeiimentale et Generale, by H. de Laeaze-Duthiers, Svo, tome xvi., 1877, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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