270 THE SCYPHOMEDUSiE OP THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, 



Colour : Umbrella rust-colour, with yellow-brownish design. 

 Month-arms without colour, with yellowish frills. Tentacles 

 carmine. 



Size : Breadth of Umbrella, 100 mm. (and more). Height of 

 Umbrella, 50 mm. 



Locality : Pacific Coast of South America, Peru, Lima, Song- 

 allan. Lesson. 



Species. Chrysaora calliparea. 



Haeckel, System der Medusen. Seite, 516. 



(?) Cyanea calliparea. Reynaud, 1830. In Lesson's Centime 

 Zoologique, p. 67, pi. XX. 



(?) Stenoptycha calliparea. L. Agassiz, 1862. Monogr. Acal. 

 Contrib., IV., p. 162. 



Chrysaora dinobrachia. Haeckel, 1877. Prodrom. System 

 Med., Nr. 446. 



Umbrella slightly vaulted, 3 times as broad as high. 32 

 marginal flaps, kidney shaped, narrower at the base than at the 

 distal margin. The 16 broader ocular flaps are less projecting 

 than the 16 narrower tentacular ones (therefore the margin 

 in the radius of the eye retracted.) 16 ocular radial-pouches 

 oval, the same breadth in the middle,, and half the breadth on the 

 distal margin of the 16 tentacular pouches. Mouth-arms curtain- 

 shaped, very broad and long ; 3-4 times as long as the radius of 

 the Umbrella, and curved. Tentacles flattened at the base, and 

 longer than the diameter of the Umbrella. 



Colour : Exumbrella intensely reddish yellow, rays of the star- 

 figure (with 32 radial stripes) and marginal flaps chestnut brown. 

 Mouth-arms yellow speckled brown. Gonads yellow. 



Size: Breadth of Umbrella, 160-200 mm. Height of Umbrella, 

 50-100 mm. 



Locality : Indian Ocean. Reynaud, Zanzibar, Schnehagen. 



Genus. Dactylometra. 

 Pelagidse, with 40 tentacles and with 48 marginal flaps. 



