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of a fine rose colour. They reach to a level with the margin of the umbrella. The specimen 
I have described was a little more than an inch in length, exclusive of its tentacula. It was 
sluggish, possibly owing to fatigue, as it had probably been in the tow-net during a greater 
part of the night. Ihave represented it in Plate III, fig. 1, @, of the natural size; fig. 1, 6, is an 
outline showing the arrangement of the muscular bands; fig. 1, ¢, represents a portion of the 
peduncle laid open, with two of the ovarian masses, and the fimbriated lips, also a part 
of the border of the umbrella with its tentacula ; fig. 1, d, is a portion of one of the tentacles, 
magnified ; and fig. 1, e, a portion of the tissue of one of the muscular bands, as seen under a 
high power. 
Eschscholtz has strangely placed this Medusa as an associate of Dianea viridula, in his 
genus Hirene. 
2. Turris neglecta, Lesson. 
Plate III, Fig. 2. 
Synonyms. Turris neglecta. Lesson, Prod., No. 38 (1837), and Acal. Hist., 
p. 284 (1843). 
Cyanea coccinea. Davis, Ann. Nat. Hist., t. vii, p. 234, pl. 2, f. 
12, 13 (1841). 
Carminrothen beroe. Slabber, Ph. Vet., p. 59, t. xiii, f. 3? (1781). 
Oceania sanguinolenta. Peron, Ann. de Mus., p. 347? (1809). 
Oceania tetranema. Peron, Ann. de Mus., loc. cit. ? (1809). 
A beautiful little species, which, when in its native element, is brilliant as a bead of 
brightest coral. It appears to be not uncommon in the Solent andaround the Isle of Wight. I 
first caught it on the south coast of that island in 1844, when geologising there with my friend 
Captain Ibbetson. Since then it was taken in the west bay of Portland, just before the 
Southampton meeting of the British Association, by Mr. M‘Andrew and myself, and again off 
the mouth of Southampton harbour during the week of the meeting, in a memorable day’s 
cruising, when a small band of British naturalists fraternised with Agassiz and Middendorf, 
and enjoyed themselves as true students of Nature only know how, when “dredging the 
waters under.” 
The umbrella is transparent, smooth, and sub-hemispheric, inclining to conical. Its 
summit is slightly pointed. The sub-umbrella is small in proportion, reaching to a little more 
than half the height of the former. It is slightly pyramidal, with a truncated summit. The 
muscular bands are distinctly seen striping its sides. The peduncle is large, and has a 
singularly substantial aspect, in consequence of the compact masses of rich crimson or vermilion 
convoluted and fimbriated ovaries which occupy its broader and upper half. This bright red 
nucleus causes the animal, small as it is, for it reaches scarcely more than one fourth of an 
inch in height, to be very conspicuous in the water. The substance of the lining of the sub- 
umbrella is also very firm. The brilliant colouring of the ovaries is due to the presence of 
large red ova. I met with individuals, which at first sight seemed as if belonging to a different 
species, in which the reproductive glands were dull pink. These may have been males. 
The peduncle terminates in four lips, which are fimbriated at their edges, and highly muscular. 
