SKMAKMSTiiMK.K CH \\l \. lilll 



like clusters of developing planula- gathered into the peripheral fanals of the gastric spafe. 

 The gelatinous substance of the disk is translucent milkv-blue in color, while the "astro- 

 vascular space. gonads, radial and circular muscles of the subumhrclla and the entodennal 

 "I the tentacles aie purplish-pink. The outer parts of the veil-like folds of the palps are 

 amber-brown. \\hile the pans adjacent to the mouth are pink. The concretions of the S 

 sense-organs are reddish-brown. The planulx are yellow, hut the ephvra is pink. 



The curtain-like oral fringes are relatively smaller than in C.\<in,n arctica. However, 

 (he chief distinction of (.'. vi i >ii 'nl'ir is its peculiar pink coloration. Even in the young /-/>/i v " 

 only 2.5 mm. in diameter, the stomach-cavity displays a deep purplish-pink, verv different 

 troin i he pale yellow-colored ephyra ot the southern ('.. fulva. 



Mature mcdus;e of (',. vet (it <il<ir occur in the winter months along our southern coast. 



Amoni; thousands observed by the author dunn<; the winter ot 11)04 05 not more than a 

 do/en lacked the pink coloranon and these resembled the variety ('. ciifiillntu var. jtil-rn. 1 hey 

 were. ho\\e\ er, swimming among swarms ot the typical pink versn nlnr medusae. I he \ ai ict v 

 verstcolor appears to he a well-marked local race ot (.'v.//;,.j capillata. 



Cyanea capillata var. nozakii Kishinouye. 



. Flti .:,'//, KiMUN'ii \i, lSi|i, III |.ip.mrsr, -, pp., I plate. 



Kishinouye's paper upon this medusa is in Japanese, hut with a (Jerman abstract, and 

 accompanied by two cleai huics ot the animal. The hell is flat and shield-shaped, 5 times 

 as wide as high. if'O to 200 mm. wide. The hell-radius is 3 times as wide as the radius of the 

 cential stomach. 10 rounded ephvra lappets, twice as wide as long. The ocular stomach- 

 pouches are nearly rectangular. The tentacular stomach-pouches are twice as wide at their 

 loses, and at the /one ot the sense-organs 2.5 times as wide as the ocular pouches. C'ohn, 

 milk-white. Found in the Inland Sea ot japan. 



This medusa is distinguished trom (',\<nit-<i capillata var. fulva only hv its color. 



Cyanea annaskala von Lendenfeld. 



8, p. 35 8 - 



Dcstnon, ", . ' . V AS si/. A., .in.l M A\ t K, t S<(S. Hull. Mus. Com p. Zool. at Harvard College, vol, ;:. p. K. pl.itr- 1 1 fig. i (young 



inc. 1 1 ' . 



.. : .'fri,snllir=( I, VON I.IMIIM bin. iSSS, Bio]. iVntralhlatt. Bd. S. p. :iK. 



:stn<i tinnaietht (? young medusa), HAM KM . i^So. s\ .t. t |cr Mcjuscn, p. 52(1, t.if. ;o, tiyn. 1-4. 



: I, QUOY ET GAIUARD, 1824, Voyage de 1' C/rznrV f Zool.f p. 570, plant i . ~. 



Ki i i 101 . i . MHO, Journal l'o!li-i;i- Sn. ToliMi, vol. 2?, art. i|. p. iS. i l.ni- j. ii K .. is. i.,. 



Umhiella flat, shield-shaped, 70 to 2OO mm. wide and about 12 to 25 mm. thick, with 

 .1 fe\\ protruding nett ling-wans at the middle ot the ex umbrella ; el sew here smooth. S marginal 

 seiise-ni o.ins which lack ocelli, and with 32 marginal lappets divided into X main flaps ot 4 

 lappets each. These lappets are cxcnlv rounded and not wider at the end than at their bases; 

 the if' ocular lappets aie about halt' as wide, as also are the 1 6 velar lappets adiacenr to them. 

 There are S U-shaped clusters of long tentacles arising tiom the floor ot the subumbi ella. 

 wi'h the concavin of each U directed outward. These tentacles are very numerous and aie 

 arranged in } to 4 crowded rows in each U; thev are filiform and when extended are about 

 $00 mm. loii";. The 4 complexlv folded, curtain-like lips are about as long as the bell-radius. 

 The 4 pro:rusi\e gonads aie lai^e and complcxlv folded. The 8 ocular, radial pouches ot 

 the central stomach are onh about half as wide as the S velar pouches. \11 ot the pouches 

 break up into blindly-ending, branched, non-anastomosing vessels in the lappets. There is 

 no ring-canal. The gelatinous substance of the disk and the tentacles are colorless. The 

 entoderm of the gastral cavity is brown. Curtain-like lips intensely purple. (lemtal organs 

 of the male are rose-colored; those of the female are orange-\ ellow . The medusa is distin- 

 guished from the Cvancas of the northern hemisphere mainly In its brilliant coloration. It 

 appears to be more closely related to (.'. versii "lor than to any other term, and it is interesting 

 to observe that <.'. versicolot is the most southerly in its range ot any ot the northern (.'\aneas. 



