16 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP THE 



CUBAMEDUS^E. 



Haeckel, 1879. 



Scyphomedusae with four perradial marginal bodies, which contain an 

 acoustic club, with entodermal otolith sac and one or more eyes ; four tentacles 

 or tentacle clusters in the secondary radii. Gastral cavity with four wide 

 square pouches in the primary radii. Gonads, four pair leaf-shaped bulges 

 which are fixed by their margin to the four septa in the secondary radii. 

 They are developed from the sub-umbral entoderm of the pouches of the 

 stomach, and they project free into the cavity. 



Familia CHORYBDEIDJE. 



Gegenbaur, 1856. 



Cubamedusre with four simple tentacles in the secondary radii, and four 

 marginal bodies in the primary radii, without any marginal flaps in the 

 velarium, but with eight marginal pouches, without arms in the four radial 

 pouches. 



Genus PROCHARYBD1S. Haeckel, 1879. 



Chorybdeiclre with four simple interradial tentacles with pedalia, simple 

 velarium without velar canals and without trenula. 



PROCHARYBDIS FLAGELLATA, E. Haeckel. 

 Procharybdisflaciellata, E. Haeckel. Das System der Medusen. Seite 438. 



Prockaryldis flagellata, R. v. Lendeiifeld. The Scyphomeduste of the Southern 

 Hemisphere. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales ; 

 volume ix, part 2, page 273. 



Mar 'supialis flag <ellata. Lesson acalephes, page 278. 



Umbrella conic stubbed above. The height twice the width ; four side 

 surfaces strongly curved. The four interradial sides rounded and a little 

 projecting. Gastral cavity 1 Margin of umbrella continuous with eight laps. 

 Velarium simple, narrow, continuous. The distance of the niches of the sense 

 organs to the margin of the umbrella is about half the distance of the pedal 

 base. Four pedalia lancet-shaped and half as long as the height of the urn" 

 brella, with very narrow wings. Tentacles several times as long as the height 

 of the umbrella. 



Size. Breadth of umbrella, 30 mm. ; height of umbrella, 40 mm. ; onto- 

 genesis unknown. 



Locality. North coast of Australia : Torres' Sti-aits, "Weber. (New Guinea, 

 Lesson 1) 



