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Nausithoe punctata KoUiker, pp. 554-556, pi. 60, figs. 4-5, 

 text fig. 352.' 

 This medusae is noteworthy for the peculiar, branched 

 scyphistoma which lives commensally in sponges. 

 Found in all tropical and warm seas. 



Linuche unguiculala Eschscholtz, pp. 558-559, pi. 59, figs. 

 1-10. 

 A West Indian species. Forms vast swarms in spring 

 in the Florida-Bahama region according to Mayer. 



Dartylonetra quinquecirrha L. Agassiz, pp. 585-588, pis. 

 62-64a, text figs. 370-372. 

 Widely distributed from New England to the tropics; 

 possibly also Pacific. Abundant in Tampa Bay in 

 August (p. 586). 



Cyanaea capillata var. versicolor L. Agassiz, pp. 600-601, 

 pi. 65, figs. 1-2. 

 Western Atlantic and Gulf, south of Cape Hatteras. 



Aurellia aurita Lamarck, pp. 623-626, pi. 67, figs. 1-4, fig. 

 4; 68. 

 In east American waters, common from Greenland to 

 West Indies. World wide. 



Cassiopea xamachana R. P. Bigelow, pp. 641-646, pis. 



69-72. C. frondosa Lamarck. Pp. 647-648, pi. 69 



and 72. 

 These interesting medusae are the subject of several 



papers in the Tortugas Laboratory series. The first 



is known from Tortugas and Jamaica; the second is 



more widely distributed throughout the West Indies. 

 Rhopilema verrillii (Fewkes), pp. 707-709, pi. 7, fig. 1, 



text fig. 424. 

 From New Haven to Port Aransas, but not (?) 

 Tortugas. 



Slomolophus meleagris L. Agassiz, pp. 710-711, pis. 75-76. 

 Abundant along southern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico 



(not north of Chesapeake Bay), and West Indies. 



Also on Pacific side of Isthmus, and north at least to 



San Diego. 



LITERATURE CITED 



Hedgpeth, Joel W. 



1945. Reexamination of the adventure of the Lion's 

 Mane. Sci. Monthly 60: 227-232. 

 Mayer, A. G. 



1910. Medusae of the world. Carnegie Inst. Washing- 

 ton Pub. 109, 3: 499-735. 



I See footnote 2, page 277. 



