SCYPHOMEDTJSAE COLLECTED BY STEAMER " ALBATROSS." 233 



Bell fiat, about 2^ inches wide, light green with grayish white 

 spots. Eight laterally flattened mouth arms, each ending in three 

 expansions, eight simple radial canals in the radii of the eight mar- 

 ginal sense organs and a network of vessels between these canals 

 and on both sides of the ring canal. No appendages on the mouth 

 arms. Phyllorhiza luzoni. 



Similar to Phyllorhiza luzoni in general shape, but there is no 

 ring canal and there are numerous small clubs upon the eight mouth 

 arms, especially at the center of the disk Versura maasi. 



Bell 15-20 inches wide, flat topped and thickly covered above with 

 flexible tapering projections, the largest near the center. The mar- 

 ginal lobes are greatly extended, forming tapering filaments. The 

 mouth arms are perforated with windowlike openings and bear 

 numerous long filaments. Common in Harbors, Manila, and west 

 coast of Palawan in April and May- 



1. Twelve to 16 marginal sense organs and 70-80 long tapering marginal lobes. 



Purple, violet, and rose pink are the prevailing colors of the animal. 



Lobonema mayeri. 1 



2. Only eight marginal sense organs and 32 marginal lobes. Colors not so bright 



as in L. mayeri, and the bell may even be white Lobonema smithii. 



Bell 4 or 5 inches wide. Eight very long, " snakelike," mouth arms 

 with frilled " seaweedlike " mouths all down their sides even to the 

 tips of the arms Thysanostoma thysanura. 



Similar to Thysanostoma thysanura, but the eight arms end each 

 in a naked club Lorifera lorifera. 



1 See S. F. Light, 1914, Philippine Journal of Science, section D, vol. 9, p. 217, figs. 7-9. 



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