THE HYDROIDS OF THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. (',:>, 



(MARKTANNER-TURNJERETSCHER (1890) gives the variation as from three to ten pairs 

 per internocle. ) 



The hydrothecae are almost wholly immersed, and the " free membranaceous extension 

 of the wall," too prominently figured in AI.I.MAN'.S account, has been destroyed (as indeed it 

 was in the T. /'rfni/<i specimen examined), leaving a jagged edge level with tin- general 

 outline of the pinna. There is evident on the abcauline wall of the hydrothecse, just 

 within the opening, a small knob of ehitin, and immediat'lv above or upon this rests the 



Ft':. 6. Thuiaria iti<-nlata. (a) Single internode of stem with proximal internodes of piniiie. x 20. (l>) Gonangium. 

 xl'J. (-) Inicrnode from T. jtcctinata with hydrothecse slightly apart. x 20. (d) Internode from T. /n-tiiiata with 

 congested hyilrotlii'caj. x 20. 



base of the one-Happed operculum. On the stem internodes and on the younger pinnae 

 the hydrothecae are slightly apart from each other, but in the older pinnre they are 

 compressed and lie closely packed, the distal end of one forced against the base of its 

 successor (<;/.' fig. 6, < and '/). 



The gonangia are clustered on one face of the stem and on the corresponding 

 faces of the pinnae. They arise immediately beneath a hydrotheca, are elongate 

 oval in shape, with a wide, circular, distal opening bordered by a distinct neck, 

 and with a tapering proximal end. Their distal half bears more or less indefinite 



annular rugosities. 



(ROY. soc. EUIN. TRANS., VOL. xi.vn., 



