Order Lucernarice. 551 



by the following features : " disc octagonal ; the tentacles 

 spring from the margin or without it ; " no anchors. 



Depastrum cyatiiiforme. Gosse.* 



Depastrum cyathiforme, Gosse, An. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1858, 



Vol. I. June, p. 419. 

 « « AUman, An. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1860, 



Vol. VI. July, p. 41. 

 " stellifrons, Gosse, An. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1860, 



Vol. V. June, p. 481, figs. 1, 

 2,3. 

 Lucernaria cyathiformis, Gosse, [non Sars,] The Aquarium, 



(2d ed.) 1856, p. 85. 

 « « Johnston, Brit. Zooph. (2d ed.) 



1847, p. 475, fig. 86. 

 " stellifrons^ Keferstein, Siebold und Kolliker, 



Zeitsch. June, 1862, p. 25. 

 Geographical distribution : Weymouth, Southern Eng- 

 land, Gosse. 



Family. ELEUTHEROCARPIDiE. H. J. C. 



Lucernaria. Miill. Prod. Zool. Danica, 1776, p. XXIX.f 



Type, L. quadricornis, Miill. Prod. Zool. Danica, 1776, 

 p. 227. Disc broad funnel-form ; the eight arms elongate, 



be left this transparent mnsculo-gelatiniform layer projecting in a point from every 

 corner of the octagonal area, and simulating completely the sharply-pointed disc 

 of Gosse' s figures of Depastrum. 



* If this is truly different from Sars' Lucernaria cyathiformis the synonomy will 

 be as I have given it, and the name sleWfrons must be suppressed, for the former 

 has priority in the genus ; and if, on the contrary, it should prove to belong to the 

 same genus as the L. cyathiformis, it can only be so by really possessing marginal 

 anchors; and this I suspect is all that is needed to make it speciJicaUy the same as 

 L. cyathiformis; so that in the latter case it would also remain as D. cyatiiiforme, 

 and Carduella become a synonym from sequence in date. 



t It appears that Edwards and Haime, ( Hist. Corall. III. 1860, p. 457,) who credit 

 the genus Lucernaria to Fabricius, have overlooked the fact tliat Jliiller, in the in- 

 troduction of his Prodromus, under the head of " Chakactekes Veumium," p. 

 XXVII. in the 3d div. " Mollusca," * * * " Ore infero," p. XXIX. has charac- 



