96 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
1835. H. Rathke, (Professor, of Dorpat). “ Beschreibung der Oceania Blumenbachii, einer bei Sevastopol 
gefundenen leuchtenden Meduse,” in the ‘ Mémoires présentés 4 Académie Impériale 
des Sciences de St. Pétersbcurg,’ vol. ii, with an excellent plate. 
The animal figured and described in this paper is a very remarkable one, and evidently 
sui generis. It is not a true Oceania, nor a member of the family Oceanide, but of 
that section of the Sarsiade which will probably eventually assume the position of an 
independent group including Bougainvillea and Lizzia. The umbrella is hemispherical, 
bordered by eight compound tentacular bulbs, of a bright yellow colour, from each of 
which rise three filiform, highly extensile, white tentacula. The peduncle is four-lobed, 
broad, striped with white and yellow, and opens by a mouth surrounded by four lips, with 
tentacular and gland-tipped prolongations arranged in a pinnate fashion. 
1835. M. Sars. ‘ Beskrivelser og Jagttagelser over nogle mcerkelige eller nyei havet ved den Bergenske 
kyst lebende dyr af Polypernes, Acalephernes,’ &c. 8vo, Bergen. 
This very interesting work is im the Norwegian language. In it Phorcynia cruciata and 
Thaumantias hemispherica are mentioned as Norwegian species, and the following new 
species described and figured : 
1. Oceania ampullacea, p. 22, t. iv, fig. 8. 
2. Oceania octocostata, p. 24, t. iv, fig. 9. This is our Stomobrachium octo- 
costatum. 
3. Oceania saltatoria, p. 25, t. iv, fig. 10. This appears to be a Circe by its form. 
No ovaries are shown in the figure. It has sixteen tentacula. It is the Pandea 
saltatoria of Lesson. 
Oceania (?) tubulosa, p. 28, t. iv, fig. 11.—Sarsia tubulosa. 
Thaumantias multicirrata, p. 25, t. viii, fig. 12. 
Thaumantias (?) plana, p. 26, t. v, fig. 11. 
Cyteis octopunctata, p. 28, t. vi, fig. 14.—Lizzia octopunctata. 
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1836. In the ninth volume of the ‘ Magazine of Natural History’ (Loudon’s) is a “ Catalogue of the 
Species of Rayed Animals found in Ireland, as selected from the papers of the late 
J. Templeton, Esq., of Cranmore, with notices of Localities, and with some Descriptions 
and Illustrations by Robert Templeton, Esq.” 
This list is of considerable value, and shows that the distinguished naturalist, from whose 
papers it was compiled, had taken great interest in the Acalephe. Of the species he 
enumerates, the followmg appear to belong to the Pulmograda Gymnopthalmata. 
“ Piliscelotus. Body hyaline, hemispherical, the apex somewhat produced, and terminating 
in a fleshy, elongated, spindle-shaped appendix. Margin of the body with four moderately 
long tentacula, each tentaculum arising from a small tubercle. P. vitreus (p. 302, f. 48). 
Hyaline, bell-shaped, with four brown tentacula arising from the margin, nearly equidistant ; 
the centre produced into a long, dark brown appendage, somewhat thickened in the 
middle. Found in the pools on the limestone rocks, at the Whitehead, June 25th, 1812. 
Moving with a pretty quick but steady motion, by expanding and collapsing the body, 
which was so extremely transparent, that scarcely any part was visible but the dark brown 
appendage and the marginal tentacula. The marginal tentacula were dilated at their 
base.” Anomalous as this creature is represented, I hardly doubt that it is other than 
Sarsia tubulosa accidentally turned inside out, as I have elsewhere observed. A curious 
Medusa, having a simple umbrella without tentacula at the margin, is figured at Cut 47. 
Tt is described as “ Ocyrhow (?), Peron (Cassiopeia (?), Lam.) cruciata. Hyaline, four arms, 
pale purple, corrugated ; eight darker, fine rays, and numerous dusky obsolete ones.” The 
figure seems to represent a naked-eyed species, but it may be some mutilated Pulmograde 
of higher rank. It would be unsafe, without new observations, to admit this form into 
systematic lists. All the other forms mentioned by Templeton (except “ Medusa 
scintillans of Macartney,” which probably refers to Thawmantias hemispherica) are 
members of higher groups, and some of them, such as his “ Mquorea (?) radiata,” 
monstrous and mutilated Awrelie. 
