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is certainly only a younger stage of his A. dissonema, at the type locality of 

 which species it was taken. Aeginella dissonema Bigelow (: 04) from the 

 Maldive Islands, is, however, a synonym of A. hitentacidata. 



Solmundella mediterranea has been recorded under its own name not only 

 from the Mediterranean and from the Tropical Atlantic (Maas, '92), but from 

 the Antarctic Ocean as well (Maas, :06''); and since Agassiz and Mayer's 

 record of S. dissonema from the Fiji Islands probably belongs to S. mediterranea 

 its range apparently extends to the Pacific. S. hitentacidata seems to have an 

 almost parallel distribution, since it has been found in the Atlantic (Maas, 

 '93, Solmundella henseni), in the Indian Ocean (Browne, : 04, lOS**; Bigelow, 

 : 04), in the Malay Archipelago (Quoy et Gaimard, '33; Maas, : 05, : 06°), 

 and in the Tropical Pacific by the present expedition of the "Albatross." 



Solmundella bitentaculata Quoy et Gaimard. 



Charybdea bitentaculata Quoy et Gaimard, '33, p. 295, taf . 25, figs. 4, 5. 



SolmundeUa bitentaculata Browne, : 04, p. 741, pi. 66, fig. S, : Oo'', p. 153, pi. 4, figs. 1-6; 



Maas, : 05, p. 73, taf. 11, fig. 74, taf. 12, fig. 75, taf. 13, figs. 86-89. 

 Aeginella bitentaculata Haeckel, '79, p. 341. 

 Aeginella dissonema Bigelow, : 04, p. 261. 



Campanella capitulum de Blainville, '34, p. 286 ; L. Agassiz, '62, p. 169. 

 SolmundeUa henseni Maas, '93, p. 55, taf. 5, fig. 11. 



Plate 2, Fig. 3. 



