PLATE XXVII 1. 



Drawn from life by me in the Canary Island Lanzerote, in January 1867. 



Mitrophyes peltifera, n. sp. (p. 131). 



Diam. 



Fig. 1. The complete corm, with expanded stein; the apical bract (b) and 

 the nectophore half in dorsal, half in lateral view (from the right 

 side), cv, Ventral canal ; cd, dorsal canal ; ex, right canal ; cb, 

 bracteal canal ; v, velum. The trunk of the dioecious siphosome 

 is fully expanded and bears numerous ordinate cormidia, . x 10 



Fig. 2. The same corm, with contracted siphosome (a); the apical bract (b) is 

 reflected to show its pedicle and the union with the nectophore (»). 

 Characters as in fig. 1. ab, Cormidia, . . . x 10 



Fig. 3. A single female cormidium. a, Trunk ; b, bract ; s, siphon ; sm, 

 stomach ; sr, proboscis ; so, mouth ; kc, cnidocysts ; t, tentacle ; 

 f, gynophore ; o, eggs ; r, velum ; w, subumbrella, . . x 100 



Fig. 4. A gynophore, with the included ovarium, isolated, o, Eggs ; uo, ostium 



umbrelke ; v, velum, . . . . . x 150 



Fig. 5. A single male cormidium. Characters as in fig. 3. h, Androphore ; 



uo, ostium of the umbrella ; sb, basigaster, . . . x 100 



Fig. 6. An androphore, with the included spermarium, isolated, hx, Axial 



spadix ; hs, sperma ; uo, ostium umbrellas, . . x 150 



Fig. 7. Apical portion of the trunk, with the connection of the apical bract (b) 

 and the nectophore. bp, Pedicle of the bract; cb, bracteal duct; 

 cs, somatocyst ; ui, rudimentary hydroecium ; a, trunk ; i, buds of 

 cormidia ; en, nectophoral duct ; cv, ventral canal ; cd, dorsal canal; 

 ex, right canal ; cl, left canal. (Compare fig. 2), . x 40 



Fig. 8. A single tentillum. leg, Large lateral cnidocysts; m, small median 

 cnidocysts ; kp, distal pyriform cnidocysts ; tf, terminal filament, 

 spirally coiled up, . . . . . . . x 300 



