BY DR. R. VOX LF.XDEXFELD. 249 



Species. Chirodropus palmatus. Haeckel. 



Haeckel, System der Medusen. Seite. 448. 



Umbrella quadrilateral-prismatic, vaulted above like a bell, 

 with the suspended velarium 1^ times as high as broad. 

 Margins strongly projecting, sides flat. Mouth-tube with 4 flaps, 

 scarcely half the height of the oval Gastral pouch. Both pouch 

 arms on the umbral-wall of each radial-pouch are aduate in their 

 two upper thirds, and are only free in the lower part and split 

 into a great many filaments. Four Pedalia hand-shaped, not 

 symmetrical, very large, neaily as long as the height of the 

 Umbrella, each with 21 long and broad band-shaped gallert- 

 processes. Altogether 84 long tentacles. 



Size: Breadth of Umbrella, 70 mm. ; height of Umbrella 

 100 mm. Ontogenesis unknown. 



Locality : South Atlantic Ocean, not far from the Island St. 

 Helen. Levasseur. 



Species. Chirodropus gorilla. Haeckel. 



Haeckel, System der Medusen, 448. 



Umbi"ella bell-shaped, nearly semi-sph?erical Together with 

 the suspended velarium 1 \ times as high as broad, margin slightly 

 projecting, side curved. Mouth-tube quadrilateral-pyramidal 

 nearly as high as the globular gastral-pouch. Both pouch-arms on 

 the umbral-wail of the radial-pouches are adnate in their upper 

 third, in the lower part they hang freely in the pouch, and are 

 split into numerous filaments. Four Pedalia hand-shaped, not 

 symmetrical scarcely as high as the height of the Umbrella, each 

 with 9 long narrow gallert-processes. 



Altogether 36 tentacles. 



Size : Breadth of Umbrella, 120 mm.; height, 150 mm. 

 Ontogenesis unknown. 



Locality : Coast of New Guinea, Ckiiichozo Loango. Falkenstein. 



