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search that its generic relations were even approximated. In 

 1892 Levinsen described a hydroid from Greenland (Meduser, 

 Ctenophorer og Hydroider fra Gronlands Vestkyst), 1 which 

 seemed to have much in common with the one here under review. 

 He had described it as a new species under the genus Lafceina, 

 Sars, naming it L. maxima. At first it was thought the present 



FIG. 8. Photograph of colony % natural size. 



species was probably identical with it, but when one undertook 

 to work out details of morphology it became more or less certain 

 that it not only was not the same species, but that, moreover, it 

 could hardly belong to the same genus, if, indeed, there might 

 not be the necessity of establishing for it a new family. 



l " Saertryk af Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren.," 1892. 



