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information regarding the currents, salinity and temperature of the area in question. 

 These could be checked with the recent statements of Wiist^ from the same regions. 

 I take the opportunity of thanking Captain A. K. Totton of the British Museum, 

 London, Dr C. J. van der Klaauw, lecturer at the University in Leiden and 

 MM. R. van Eecke and J. Zaneveld for the help rendered to me in many respects 

 in preparing this report. 



THE MATERIAL 

 Order CHARYBDEIDEA, Poche 



Family CHARYBDEIDAE, Haeckel 

 Tamoya haplonema, F. Miiller 



Order CORONATAE, Vanhoeffen 



Family PERIPHYLLIDAE, Haeckel 

 Periphylla hyacinthina, Steenstrup 



Family NAUSITHOIDAE, Bigelow 

 Nausithoe punctata, Kolliker 



Family ATOLLIDAE, Bigelow 

 Atolla wyvillei, Haeckel Atolla chtini, Vanhoeffen 



Order SEMAEOSTOMEAE, Agassiz 



Family PELAGIDAE, Gegenbaur 

 Pelagia noctiluca, Forskal Chrysaora fulgida, Raynaud 



Family CYANEIDAE, Agassiz 



Desmonema chierchiana, Vanhoeffen Desmonema gaudichaudi. Lesson 



Family ULMARIDAE, Haeckel 



Sub-family STHENONIDAE, Agassiz 



Phacellophora ornata (Verrill) 



Order CHARYBDEIDEA, Poche, 1914 



= CHARYBDEIDAE, Gegenbaur, 1856 = CUBOMEDUSAE, Haeckel, 1879 



Family CHARYBDEIDAE, Haeckel, 1879 



Genus Tamoya, F. Miiller, 1859 



Tamoya haplonema, F. MuUer (Fig. i) 



Six fair specimens. St. 279. 10. viii. 27. Off Cape Lopez, French Congo, from 8-5 miles N 71° E 

 to 15 miles N 24° E of Cape Lopez. Large otter trawl, 58-67 m. 



The present six specimens agree so accurately with my diagnosis of the genus 

 Tamoya (1930, p. 10) that they could be determined with complete certainty as be- 



1 Wust, G., Der Ursprung der atlantischen Tiefenwasser, Zeitschr. Ges. Erdkunde, Berlin, Jubi- 

 laumsband, 1928. 



Id., Schichtungund Zirkulation des atlantischen Oceans, i Lief. Das Bodenwasser und die Gliederung 

 der atlantischen Tiefsee. Wiss. Ergebn. der Deutschen atlant. Exp. auf dem ' Meteor'. Leipzig, 1933. 



Id., Bodenwasser und Bodenconfiguration der atlantischen Tiefsee. Zeitschr. Ges. Erdkunde, Berlin, 



1933- 



