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MEDUSAE OF THE WORLD. 



Liriope eurybia Haeckel. 



Plate 51, figs. 3 and 4. 



Geryonia exigua, Leuckart, 1856, Archiv. fur Naturges., Jahrg. 22, p. 3, taf. I, fig. I. 



Liriope eurybia, Haeckel, 1864, Jena. Zeit. fur Naturw., Bd. 1, pp. 329, 462, taf. 12, fign. 11-25. — Spac.nolini, 1871, Atti 



della Soc. Xtal. di Sci. Nat., vol. 14, fasc. 3, p. 31. — Haeckel, 1879, Syst.der Medusen, p. 291. — Maas, i89i,Sitzungsber. 



Akad. Wissen. Berlin, p. 336; 1893, Ergeb. der Plankton Exped., Bd. 3, K. c, p. 35, taf. 2, fign. 2, 3; 1904, Result. 



Camp. Sci. Prince de Monaco, fasc. 28, p. 26. 

 Liriope ligurina, Haeckel, 1864, Jena. Zeit. fiir Naturw., Bd. 1, p. 457; 1865, Familie der Geryoniden, p. 23. 

 Glossocodon eurybia, Haeckel, 1866, Jena. Zeit. fiir Naturw., Bd. 2, pp. 93-128, 129-143. 



See synoptic table of species of Liriope. 



Distinguished by its thin-walled bell, flatter than a hemisphere. Peduncle not quite as 

 long as bell-diameter, cylindrical with conical base. Gonads egg-shaped, twice as long as 



277. 276. 



Fig. 274. — Liriope eurybia. Fig. 276. — Liriope distanogona. 



Fig. 275. — Liriope eurybia (young). Fig. 277. — Liriope catharinensis. 



Above figures after Maas, in Ergeb. Plankton Expedition. 



wide, their outer ends touching ring-canal. 3 interradial, centripetal vessels in each quadrant. 

 Gonads and stomach green, milky-white, or colorless. Found in the Mediterranean. Common. 



Liriope distanogona Maas. 



Liriope distanogona, Maas, 1893, Ergeb. Plankton Expedition, Bd. 2, K.c, p. 36, taf. 3, fign. 4-7. 



See synoptic table of species of Liriope. 



Distinguished by its narrow rhomboidal gonads with rounded edges. The gonads are on 

 the outer parts of the radial-canals. The spaces between the gonads are twice as wide as are 



