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below Savannah, Georgia (L. Agassiz, type series), Miami Beach, 

 Florida, (Boone, 1923, also 1933), Tortugas, Florida and Cuba 

 (Mayer), at Surinam, described as S. fritiUaria (Haeckel, 1880), 

 also the northern shores of South America and in the Gulf of 

 Paria, between Trinidad and Venezuela (Trinci, 1906, described 

 as S. chuni) . 



Full description and discussion of the Miami Beach, Florida, 

 specimens, collected by Mr. Vanderbilt, in his yacht "Ara," is pre- 

 sented in Volume IV, Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Museum, 

 p. 48, plate 10. 



The present Galapagan specimen conforms in all anatomic de- 

 tails with the Atlantic specimens, except that it exceeds these in the 

 number of marginal lappets, which average twenty to twenty-two 

 per octant in this unusually large example of the species. How- 

 ever, as Dr. Bigelow has illustrated with Atlantic and California 

 Pacific specimens, there is no correlation between the number of 

 lappets and geographic occurrence. The number of lappets in the 

 present Galapagan adult specimen is no greater than are already 

 known from specimens from both coasts. 



References: Stomolophus meleagris, Haeckel, E., System der 

 Medusen. Zweite Hafte des System der Medusen. Jena 

 Denkschr. I, 1880, p. 599; S. fritiUaria, Haeckel, op. cit., 

 p. 598; S. agaricu£, Haeckel, E., op. cit., p. 598; as Brachio- 

 lophus collaris, Haeckel, E., p. 597. 



Stomolophus chuni, Vanhoffen, E., Ueber semaeostome und 

 rhizostome Medusen. Bibl. Zool. I, 1888, I, heft. 3, p. 43. — 

 Trinci, G., Ann. Museo R. Univ. Napoli, 1906, ser. 2, t. IX, 

 p. 1-4. 



Stomolophus meleagris, Bigelow, H. B., Univ. of Calif., Publ. 

 Zool., 1914, vol. XIII, No. 10, p. 239.— Boone, L., Bull. Van- 

 derbilt Mar. Mus. 1933, vol. IV, p. 48, pi. 10 (with early 

 synonymy) . 



