268 THE SCYPHOMEDUS^E OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, 



Colour : Pale reddish hue. Mouth-arms rose-coloured. Gonads 

 whitish. 



Size : Breadth of umbrella, 70-80 mm. Height of Umbrella, 

 15-20 mm. Ontogenesis unknown. 



Locality : South Atlantic Ocean, near the Cape of Good Hope. 

 Eschscholtz. 



Genus. Chrysaora. 



Pelagidpe with 24 tentacles (3 between 2 marginal bodies) and 

 with 32 marginal flaps, 16 ocular, and 16 tentacular. 



Species. Chrysaora fulgida. 



Haeckel, System der Medusen. Seite, 514. 



Rhyzostoma fulgidum. Reynaud, 1830; in Lesson's Centime 

 Zoologique, p. 79, pi. 25. 



Chrysaora Renaudii. Lesson, 1843. Acalephes, p. 401. 



Chrysaora Renaudii. L. Agassiz, 1862. Monogr. Acal. Contrib. 

 IV., p. 166. 



Umbrella semi-spherical, twice as broad as high ; 32 marginal 

 flaps short and broad, nearly semi- circular, with continuous 

 margin. The 16 ocular and the 16 tentacular ones nearly of the 

 same size, and equally projecting (octantes therefore with simple 

 marginal arches), Radial pouch 1 Mouth-arms spread out from a 

 narrow base, with only few folds, lancet-shaped, in the middle 

 about half as broad as the radius of the Umbi'ella, 2-3 times as 

 long as the diameter of the Umbrella. Tentacles about as long as 

 the radius of the Umbrella. 



Colour : Umbrella yellowish brown. Star figure and marginal 

 flaps reddish brown. Mouth-arms reddish, Gonads carmine. 



Size : Breadth of Umbrella, 300-700 mm. Height of Umbrella 

 100-200 mm. 



Locality : Cape of Good Hope, False Bay. Reynaud. 



Species : Chrysaora Blossevillei. 



Haeckel, System der Medusen. Seite, 514. 

 Chrysaora Blossevillei, Lesson, 1829. Voyage de la Coquille. 

 Zool., p. 115, pi. XIII., fig. 2. 



