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MELICERTOI. 



ovaries are frill-like lobes (Fig. 200), passing from one side to the other 

 of the chymiferous canal ; the chymiferous tubes are slender, and ap- 

 pear like four dark-violet threads, connecting the different lobes of the 



Fig- 201. 



Fie. 199- 



Fig. 200. 



ovaries. (Fig. 201.) The digestive cavity reaches about two thirds of 

 the length of the chpniferous tubes ; it is very flexible, but scarcely 

 contractile (Fig. 201), ending in four large lobes, capable of extend- 

 ing far beyond the mam wall of the digestive cavity ; the veil is large, 

 leaving an opening of half the diameter across the circular tube. 



Gulf of Georgia, W. T. (A. Agassiz). 



Cat. No. 286, Gulf of Georgia, W. T., 1859, A. Agassiz. 



MELICERTUM Oken. 



Melicertum Okks. Lehrb. der Naturg. 1816. 

 Melicertum Agass. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., IV. p. 349. 18G2. 

 Melicerta P^R. et Les. {p. p.) ; in Ann. du Mus., XIV. p. 40. 1809. 

 Campanella Less, {non Bl.). Zooph. Acal., p. 281. 1843. 

 Stomohrachium Forbes (hob Br.). Naked-eyed Medusa, p. 30. 1848. 



Melicertum campanula Esch. 



Melicertum campanula Esch. Syst. der Acal., p. 105. 1829. 



Mdkerlum campanula Ag.\ss. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., IV. p. 349. 1862. 



Melicertum ca7tipaiiuln A. Agass.; in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., IX. p. 96, Figs. 18, 19. 



Melicerta campanula Per. et Les.; in Ann. du Mus., p. 40. 1809. 



lifedusa campanula Fab. Fauna Gronlandica. 1 780. No. 360. 



Medusa campnnulala Bosc. Hist. Nat. d. Vers., H. p. 170. 



Campanella Fabricii Less. Zooph. Acal., p. 281. 1843. 



Campanella campanula Morch ; in Beskriv. af Gronland, p. 95. 1857. 



This Medusa, first mentioned by Fabricius, has, like many others so 

 characteristically described by him, escaped notice entirely, till it was 



Fig. 199. The bend of a contracted tentacle. 



Fig. 200. A portion of the genital organs. 



Fig. 201. One chymiferous tube and half of the digestive cavity. 



