266 THE SCYPHOMEDUSjE OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, 



Genus. Pelagia. 



Pelagidse, with 8 adradial tentacles (alternating with the 8 

 marginal bodies), and with 16 marginal flaps. 



Species. Pelagia panopyra. 



Haeckel, System der Medusen. Seite, 509. 



Pelagia panopyra. Peron et Lesueur, 1809. Tableaux des 

 Meduses, etc., p. 349, N. 64. 



Pelagia panopyra. Eschscholtz, 1829. System der Acalephen, 

 p. 73. Taf. VI., fig. 2, 



Pelagia panopyra. Lesson (p. p. !), 1830. Centurie Zool. 

 p. 192, pi. 62, fig. 2. 



Pelagia panopyra. Brandt, 1838. Memoir. Acad. Petersb. 

 Tom. IV., p. 382. Taf. XIV., fig. 1 ; Taf. XIV., A. fig. 1—5. 



Pelagia panopyra. L. Agassiz, 1862. Monogr. Acal. Contrib. 

 IV., p. 164. 



Pelagia tuberculosa. Couthouy, 1862 ; in L. Agassiz. Contrib. 

 IV., p. 164. 



(?) Pelagia Labiche. Eschscholtz, 1829. System der Acalephen, 

 p. 78. 



(?) Pelagia Labiche. De Blainville, 1834. Actinologie, p. 302, 

 pi. 40, fig. 3. 



(?) Pelagia Labiche. L. Agassiz, 1862. Monogr. Acal. Contrib. 

 IV., p. 165. 



Medusa panopyra. Peron et Lesueur, 1807. Voyage aux 

 Terres Australes, pi. 31, fig. 2. 



Dianaea panopyra. Lamarck, 1817. Hist. nat. An. s. vert. 

 Tom. II., p. 507. 



Cyanea Labiche. Quoy et Gaimard, 1824. Voyage de 

 l'Uranie, etc. Zoologie, p. 571, pi. 84, fig. 1. 



Umbrella semi-spherical, flattened above, nearly twice as broad 

 as high. Kettle-warts of the Exumbrella small and scattered, 

 elongated. Most dense on the margin of the Umbrella. 

 Marginal flaps nearly quadratic, slightly crenated on the distal 

 margin. Manubrium long and narrow, nearly twice as long as 

 the radius of the Umbrella, 3 times as long as broad. Mouth-arms 



