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colony and seven anterior nectophores. In my opinion, anterior nectophores of A. schmidti cannot be 

 distinguished with certainty from those of A. trigona. Abyla schmidti (Text-figs. 73, 76, 77), though 

 common in the Tropical Indian Ocean has not been noted hitherto in the North Atlantic except at 



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Text-fig. 73. Abyla schmidti Sears. A, specimen from 'Discovery II' St. 1581 (base of right-hand side slightly restored), 

 x6-4; B, C, D, posterior nectophores ; B, 'Discovery II' St. 1587, x6-4; C, 'Mabahiss' St. 131, x6"4; D, 'Discovery II' 

 St. 1585, x 6-4. In fig. D, the break in the apophysis indicates shortening of total length. 



' Dana ' Station 4762. This record perhaps needs checking. There is however an allied form in the 

 western South Atlantic (Text-fig. 74). 



So far as I can tell at present, there appears to be more than one species of Abyla with anterior 

 nectophores similar to those figured by Quoy & Gaimard (1827, pi. 2, B, figs. 1-8), Gegenbaur (1859), 



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