Z ART. 7. K. KTSHTNOUYE. 



to adhesive anchor«. Secondary tentacles are clustered in eight 

 adradial groups. Coronal muscle ring-shaped. Adhesive peduncle 

 at the aboral end of the umbrella. 



This new family is proposed for a medusa which stands 

 between Tesseridœ and Lucernaridœ and which thus serves to 

 connect these two families. More precisely speaking, the medusa 

 is closely allied to the subfamily Depastridœ on the one hand and 

 to the subfamily Haliclyslidœ on the other ; at the same time 

 it can not well be placed under either of these. 



StenoscyphiiSf now gen. 



Stenoscyphidre with four-chambered peduncle and eight 

 separate genital glands. 



flicnoscyphus inaba i. 

 (Fig,. 1, 2.) 



DepaMrum inabai, Kixhinouye, 1893. In : Zool. Mag. Tokyo. Vol. 

 V, pp. 41G-418, with woodcuts. (In Japanese). 



The umbrella or the calyx is very narrow and elongate, 

 generally widening somewhat abruptly at the oral end, so that 

 it presents the shape of a long prism or rather of a funnel with 

 a long and wide tube. It is more or less quadrate in cross- 

 section. The length (or height) is from two to three times the 

 breadth at the umbrella margin. The latter is not divided into 

 lobes or arms. 



The peduncle is more or less quadrate like the umbrella 

 and possesses four interradial grooves (fig. 2). Its length is 



