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single specimen of its sexual generation (Diplophysa inermis) was found by 

 Fewkes (1881 ; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., Vol. VIII, p. 166, Plate VI. Figure 

 12), in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island. 



The Atlantic species of Sphseronectes is closely allied to, if not identical 

 with, S. Kollikeri of the Tropic^kl Pacific. Chvm (1892, Abhandl. Senck. 

 Gesell., Bd. 18, p. 86) says that in S. Kollikeri the distal portion of the 

 phyllocyst curves downward toward the edge of the swimming-bell, while 

 in S. gracilis it bends upwards. Our observations on S. Kollikeri from the 

 Fiji Islands do not support this view (see Agassiz and Mayer, 1899 Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zobl. at Harvard Coll., Vol. XXXIl. p. 177, Plate 16, Figure 51), 

 for there appears to be much individual variability in respect to the curvature 

 of the phyllocyst in the Pacific species. All of the specimens of S. gracilis 

 observed in the Tortugas, Florida, were colorless, whereas S. Kollikeri is often 

 quite highly colored ; the entoderm of the feeding-polypites being bright yel- 

 low, and the nematocyst batteries of the tentacles orange. 



5 DIPHYES, CuviER, 1817. 



<■ EUDOXIA, ESCHSCHOLTZ, 1825. 



< Diphyes bipartita, Costa. 



\ Eudoxia campanula, Leuckart. 



Figs. 114, 114% Plate 34. 



Diphyes bipartita, Costa, O. G., 1840, Genere Diphya, p. 4, Taf. 



IV. 

 Diphyes acuminata, Leuckart, R., 1853 ; Die Siphonophoren, p. 61, 

 Polygastric I Taf. III. Figs. 11-19. 



Generation Diphyes gracilis, Gegenbaur, C, 1854, Zeit. fiir Wissen. Zool, 



Bd. V. p. 309, Taf. XVI. Figs. 5-7. 

 Diphyes Sieboldii, KGlHker, A., 1853, Die Schwimmpolypen der 

 Messina, p. 36, Taf. XI. Figs. 1-8. 



This species is very abundant all over the Tropical Atlantic and in the 

 Mediterranean ; and specimens are often found at Newport, Rhode Island, 

 late in the summer. 



