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.Nr. 14. Clytia sp.? (Inaba 1890 Fig. 36, 37, 38.) 

 Tiophosome. Stein 10 mm high, branching very sparsely, slightly curved, consisting 

 of many segments, each segment growing out from near the middle of the next lower one and 

 with six to ten rings at the two ends, terminating with a deep bell-shaped hydrotheca 

 with a slightly expanding mouth and with recurved margin, the mouth polygonal, with 

 about 12 ungles. 



Gonosome. Gonotheca attached to the stem, elongated elliptical, upper end slightly 

 swoUeii aiul with a circular nioutli. lower end beconiing gradually slender and continued 



into a short stalle consisting of three or four rings. 

 Medusae globular. with 4 radial canals and 4 mar- 

 ginal tentacles. 



Colour. Transparent. 



Locality. Shishigahana, Sagami Sea, 10 m, 

 attached to other hydroids of such genera as Aglao- 

 phenia, Sertularia, etc. 



Data. Gonothecae found in January. 

 The stems of this species are very peculiar, 

 each young segment branching forth from the 

 middle part of the next older one; hence theoreti- 

 cally the stem .should form a spiral like the scor- 

 pioidal cyme of the phanerogams. This mode of 



Fig. 23. Clytia linearis (Th.). 

 Kolonie mit Gonothek. (I. Fig. 37.) 



Fig. 24. C. linearis (Th.). 

 Gonothek mit Medusenanlagen. (I. Fio 



9* 



38.) 



