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tacles. R. P. Bigelow, 1880, states that the so-called " Chrysaora" of the Chesapeake, which 

 is only a hrackish-water, abortive variety of Dactylomctra, develops from an ephyra through a 

 Pelagia stage, wherein it has only 8 tentacles and 16 lappets, and Brooks has figured the ephyrae 

 in the text figures here shown. 



The present writer found considerable numbers of Chrysaora-like meduss in Hampton 

 Roads and Norfolk Harbor, Virginia, and in St. Mary's River, Maryland, early in Novem- 



FlG. 372. — Young ephyrs of Dactyhmetra quinquedrrha. Figures drawn by the late Prof. William K. Brooks at the 

 Chesapeake Bay Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University. Presented by the Department of Biol- 

 ogy of the Johns Hopkins University for publication in this work. 



ber, 1904 and 1905. These were generally pale milky-yellow in color and lacked the rich 

 brown pigment and the 16 pigmented, radial areas seen upon the exumbrella ol Dactylomctra 

 quinquedrrha. Others had a red-brown spot at the apex of the exumbrella, and surrounding 

 this was a star-like zone of red-brown streaks with pointed ends directed outward. The 



