166 Records of the Indian Museum. [VoL. XT, 
distinctly festooned web at their base. ‘The epistome is large and 
rather broad. The whole polypide is slender, the stomach particu- 
larly so. The colour of the latter in formalin is pale yellowish 
green. 
Statoblasts.—The statoblast is of moderate size, elongate and 
rounded at the extremities; the capsule is broadly oval and often 
sometimes eccentric (fig. 1). The swim-ring is broad. It is remark- 
able for its vertical curvature (figs. ra and 1b), surrounding the 
capsule like the rim of a dish in such a way that one surface of 
the statoblast is distinctly concave and the other convex, al- 
though the capsule itself is perfectly symmetrical. The convex 
surface is the one by which it is fastened to the funiculus. 
The average length of the statoblast is about 0°46 mm. and 
the average breadth about 0:29 mm., the corresponding dimen- 
sions of the capsule being about 0°25 and 0187 mm.; but owing 
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Fies. 1, ta, 1b.—Statoblast of Australella indica, sp. nov. 
Fie, 2.—Statoblast of Plumatella punctata var. longigemmts, nov. 
to the curvature of the rim it is difficult to obtain exact measure- 
ments. 
Type.—No. 6629/7 Z.E.V., Ind. Mus. A cotype has been sent 
to the British Museum. 
Locality.—Yahore, Punjab (12-x-14). 
The points in which this species differs from 4. lendenfeldi 
are discussed under the heading of that species. 
In one of the specimens part of the colony is undergoing 
regeneration. The polypides have apparently been killed or 
injured but the jelly remains intact New branches are arising 
from single polypides or pieces of polypides that have not per- 
ished. ‘They consist of single or double rows of zooecia which 
have not yet produced lateral branches. The precise structure 
of such rows has already been discussed (p. 164). 
