JO DISCOVERY REPORTS 



wide and had eight very large tentacles opposite to the radial canals and a considerable number of 



small tentacles in the spaces between the canals. 



Distribution. Haliscera racovitzae seems to be a rare medusa; it has only been recorded with 

 certainty from a few localities in the antarctic region: 70° 09' S, 82^ 35' W (Maas), the Weddell Sea 

 (Thiel 193 1), and east of South Georgia (the present specimen). 



Botrynema brucei Browne 190S 



(Text-fig. 17) 



1902 A }Halicreas glabrum Vanhoffen, p. 70. PI. 9, fig. 3. 



1908 Botrynema brucei Browne, p. 239. PI. i, figs. 8-9; PI. 2, fig. i. 



1912a Botryfiema brucei YanhoHen, p. 382. PI. 25, fig. 5. Text-figs. 18-19. 



1913 Botrynema ellinorae Bigelow, p. 53. PI. 6, figs. 1-4. 



1942 Botrynema brucei Kramp, p. 73- 



1947 Botrynema brucei Kramp, p. 11. PI. i, fig. 9; PI. 2, fig. 3; PI. 4, fig. 4. 



1948a Botrytietna brucei Kramp, p. 6. 



1953 Botrynema brucei Russell, p. 459. PI. 27, fig. i. Text-figs. 303-304. 



1936 }Halicreas papillosum Thiel, p. 34, in part. 



Occurrence: St. 89. 28. vi. 26. 34° 05' 15" S, 16° 00' 45" E. Net: TYF looo(-o) m. i specimen. 



St. 100. 4. X. 26. 33° 20' S, 15° 18' E to 33° 46' S, 15° 08' E. Net: TYF 2500-2000 m. i specimen. 



St. 301. 20-21.1.30. 52° 36' 30" S, 37° 14' W. Net: N 70 V 750-500 m. i specimen. 



St. 391. 18. iv. 30. 55° 48' 30" S, 52° 35' W. Net: N 450 H i200-i30o(-o) m. i specimen. 



St. 677. 27. iv. 31. 31° 16' 15" S, 29° 56' 30" W. Net: TYFV 1500-1000 m. i specimen. 



St. 1639. 2. xii. 35. 58° 35' S, 92° 06' 12" E. Net: TYFB 2400-1 150 m. i specimen. 



St. 1702. 17. iii. 36. 64° 20' 06" S, 139° 54' E. Net: TYFB 2000-1250 m. 5 specimens. 



St. 1745. 21. iv. 36. 32° 03' 54" S, 88° 56' 54" E. Net: TYFB 1600-800 m. i specimen. 



St. 1750. 25. iv. 36. 32° 12' S, 75° 32' 36" E to 32° 13' 54" S, 75° 21' 30" E. Net: N 450 H 2000-1900 m. i specimen. 



St. 1753. 27. iv. 36. 32° 00' 24" S, 68° 50' 54" E. Net: TYFB 2900-1400 m. i specimen. 



St. 1825. 5.x. 36. 55° 42' 48" S, 14° 44' 06" W to 55° 44' 12" S, 14° 50' 54" W. Net: TYF 70 B 1150-600 m. 



I specimen. 

 St. 1869. II. xi. 36. 62° 37' 18" S, 48° 05' 12" W. Net: TYFB 1550-1000 m. i specimen. 

 St. 1871. 12. xi. 36. 64° 04' 24" S, 52° 57' 30" W. Net: TYFB 1450-1000 m. i specimen. 

 St. 1917. 3. xii. 36. 53° 48' 42" S, 46° 27' 42" W. Net: TYFB 1400-1000 m. i specimen. 

 St. 1970. 18. ii. 37. 55° 03' S, 54° 04' 12" W. Net: TYFB 1800-1500 m. i specimen. 

 St. 2033. 6. iv. 37. 33° 54' S, 12° 31' 12" E. Net: TYFB 1350-1250 m. i specimen. 

 St. WS 38. 22. xii. 26. 54° 01' S, 35° 14' W. Net: N 70 V 1000-750 m. i specimen. 

 St. WS 63. 20. i. 27. 54° 36' S, 39° 14' W. Net: N 70 V 1000-750 m. i specimen. 

 St. WS 336. 30. xii. 28. 53° 06' S, 34° 44' W. Net: N 70 V 1000-760 m. i specimen. 



Stns 89, 100 and 2033 are in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope; St. 677 is farther west 

 in the Atlantic Ocean; Stns 1639 and 1702 are in the Indian Ocean sector of the Antarctic; Stns 

 1745, 1750 and 1753 are in the central part of the Indian Ocean, between South Africa and Australia. 

 The other stations are in the Weddell Sea (text-fig. 17, p. loi). 



Most of the specimens are about 30 mm. in diameter and 25 mm. in height; some of them, especially 

 those collected by 'William Scoresby', are in very good condition, and even the badly preserved 

 specimens may be identified with certainty by means of the shape of the umbrella with its distinct 

 apical knob and the traces of tentacles which are always more or less retained showing the very 

 characteristic arrangement in groups. 



Though it seems to me very probable that Holier eas glabrum VanhoflFen 1902 is identical with 

 Botrynema bnieei Browne 1908, I will not use the former name, because that species was not described 

 in a recognizable way, and the figure gave a wrong impression of the appearance of the medusa. 



