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Genus. Aurelia. 



Ulinarida? with 8 marginal bodies and with 8 broad adradial, 

 sometimes bipartate velar flaps, each of which bears on its dorsal 

 side, some distance away from the margin, a row of numerous 

 short tentacles. Alternating with as many dorsal flaps. Mouth- 

 arms simple. 



Species. Aurelia colpota. 



Haeckei System der Medusen. Seite, 555. 



Aurelia colpota. Brandt, 1838. Memoires de l'Academie 

 Imp. des Sciences, St. Petersburgh. Tome IV., p. 370, tab. IX. 



Aurelia colpota. L. Agassiz, 1862. Monogr. of Acal, Contrib. 

 to the Nat. H. of the U. S. A. Vol. IV, p. 160. 



Monocraspedon colpotus, 1835. Brandt, Prodrom. Descript. 

 Animal. Mertens, p. 25. 



Umbrella flat or vaulted, 2-3 times as broad as high. 8 velar 

 flaps of the Umbrella margin not protruding, divided from each 

 other by small and shallow ocular incisions only. Mouth-arms 

 slightly longer than the radius of the Umbrella. Much flapped. 

 Deeply incised and broad at the base. Umbrella radius double 

 the size of the radius of the Genital Organs. At every Genital 

 bay, 5 canal roots. 16 anastomosing canal nets, with very elongate 

 meshes. 



Colour : Pale reddish. Gonads and tentacles rose-coloured. 



Size : Diameter of Umbrella, 100-120 mm. Height, 40-50 mm. 



Locality : Indian Ocean, 35° S., 334° W. Mertens. Coast of 

 Capland. Bleek. 



Species. Aurelia clausa. 



Haeckei, System der Medusen. Seite, 558. 



Aurelia clausa. Lesson, 1829. Voyage de la Coquille. Zool., 

 p. 119. 



Aurelia clansa. L. Agassiz, 1862. Mongr. of Acal. Contrib. 

 to the Natural pi. of the U. S. A. Vol. IV., p. 1 60. 



Claustra pissinbogue. Lesson, 1843. Acalephes, p. 78. 



Ocyroe lineolata 1 Peronet Leseur, 1809. Tableaux des Meduses, 

 p, 355. 



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