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are not entirely satisfactory. Some years since, this medusa was 

 found also at Misaki in winter. 



DISCOMEDUSiE. 



SEMOSTOMiE. 



Pelagîdœ. 



Kuragea^ nov. gen. 



Pelagidse with fifty-six tentacles and sixty-four marginal 

 lobes. 



Kuragea depressa, now sp. 



(Fig. 7.) 



The umbrella is flat, discoidal, about three times as broad 

 as high. The sixty-four marginal lobes are oblong and of un- 

 equal size. The ocular lobes and the lobes by the sides of the 

 adradial tentacles are larger than any other, while those next to 

 the ocular lobes are the smallest. The sixteen ocular pouches 

 are long and oval in form, their distal ends being about half as 

 broad as those of the tentacular pouches. The oral arms are 

 broad and rich in folds. The tentacles are unequal in thickness, 

 those at the sides of the ocular lobes being slender. The total 

 length of both the oral arms and the tentacles can not be deter- 

 mined, as they are but incompletely preserved in the single 

 type-specimen examined. 



The exumbrella shows a sixteen-rayed, stellate marking. On 



* Kuragê, l lie Japanese name for medusae. 



