SARSIAD^E. 



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Family SARSIAD^E Forbes. 



Sarsiada; FORBES (res/r. Agass.). Brit. Naked-eyed Medusae, p. 54. 1848. 

 Sarsiadce AGASS. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. 8., IV. pp. 184, 217, 339. 1862. 



CORYNE GART. 



Coryne GART.; in Pall. Elen. Zooph. 1774. Hydra. 



Syncoryna EIIREXB. (/). p.). Corall. des Rothen Meeres. 1834. Hydra. 



Ktijmla SARS. Bidrag til Soedyr. Nat. 1829. Hydra. 



Henuia JOIIXST. British Zoophytes, p. 111. 1838. Hydra. 



Coryne AGASS. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., IV. p. 339. 18G2. Hydra. 



Sarsia LESS. Zooph. Acal., p. 333. 1843. Medusa. 



Sthenio DU.J. ; in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1845. Medusa. 



Sarsia AGASS.; in Mem. Am. Acad., p. 224. 1849. Medusa. 



Fig. 284. 



Fig. 285. 



Coryne mirabilis AGASS. 



Coryne miralilis AGASS. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., IV. pp. 185-217, Figs. 



9-31 ; PI. 20, Figs. 1-9 ; PL 23% Fig. 12 ; III. PL 11, Figs. 14, 



15; Pis. 17-19. 1860-62. 



Sarsia mirabilis AGASS. ; in Mem. Am. Acad., IV. p. 224, Pis. 4, 5. 

 Sarsia mirabilis STIMPS. Mar. Inv. Grand Manan, p. 11. 1853. 

 Oceania tubulosa GOULD (o Sars). Inv. of Mass., p. 348. 1841. 

 Sarsia r/lacialis MORCH ; in Beskviv. af Greenland, p. 95. 1857. 

 Tubularia stellifera COUTH.; in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., IE. p. 56. 

 Tubularia stellifera GOULD. Inv. Mass., p. 350. 1841. 



This Medusa (Figs. 283, 284, 285) is one of the 

 earliest visitants of our wharves. The ice has 



scarcely gone from the shores 

 when numbers of young Me- 

 dusae, just freed from the 

 Hydrarium, swarm near the 

 surface on any sunny day. 

 Captain Couthouy has de- 

 scribed, under the name of 

 Tubularia stellifera, a Hy- 

 droid which is probably the 

 Hydroid of our Sarsia mira- 

 bilis ; as the specimens from 

 which his descriptions were 

 made have not been pre- 



Fig. 283. 



Fig. 283. Adult Coryne mirabilis, seen in profile ; one half natural 



size. 



Fig. 284. Coryne mirabilis, with proboscis contracted. (, tentacles ; 

 e, veil ; c, circular tube ; o, actinostome. 



Fig. 285. Coryne mirabilis, with expanded proboscis, c/, proboscis ; 

 a, ft, thickness of the bell. 



