SARSIAD^E. 



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Family SARSIAD^ Forbes. 



Sarsiad(e Forbes (rrstr. Agass.). Brit. Nakcd-cyed Medusa?, p. 54. 1848. 

 Sarsiadce Agass. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., IV. pp. 184, 217, 339. 18G2. 



CORYNE Gart. 



Cori/ne GXrt. ; in Pall. Elen. Zoopli. 1774. Hydra. 



Si/ncori/na Ehuexb. (p. p.). Corall. des Rotlien Mcorcs. 1834. Hydra. 



Slipula Sars. Bidrao; til Soedyr. Nat. 1829. Hydra. 



Hermia Johxst. British Zoophytes, p. 111. 1838. Hydra. 



Conjne AdASS. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., IV. p. 339. 18(i2. Hydra. 



Sarsia Less. Zooph. Aeal., p. 333. 1843. Medusa. 



Sihenio Duj. ; in Ann. So. Nat. 1845. Medusa. 



Sarsia Agass.; in Mem. Am. Acad., p. 224. 1849. Medusa. 



Fig. 284. 



Fig. 235. 



Coryne mirabilis Agass. 



Cortjne mirnhilis Agas.'S. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., IV. pp. 185-217, Figs. 



9-31 ; PI. 20, Figs. 1 -9 ; PI. 23", Fig. 12 ; HI. PI. 11°, Figs. 14, 



15; Pis. 17-19. 18G0-62. 

 Sarsia mirabilis .\g.\ss. ; in Mem. Am. Acad., IV. p. 224, Pis. 4, 5. 

 Sarsia mirabilis Stimps. Mar. Inv. Grand Manan, p. 11. 1853. 

 Oceania lubulosa Gould (iion Sars). Inv. of Mass., p. 348. 1841. 

 Sarsia glacialis MoRCii ; in Beskriv. af Greenland, p. 95. 1857. 

 Tuhnlaria stellifera Cot^Tii. ; in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., H. p. 56. 

 Tuhiilaria slellifera Govi.v. Inv. Mass., p. 350. 1841. 



This Medusa (Figs. 283, 284, 285) is one of the 

 earliest visitants of our wharves. The ice has 



scarcely gone from the shores 

 when numbers of young Me- 

 dusre, just freed from the 

 Hydrarium, swarm near the 

 surfoce on any sunny day. 

 Captain Couthouy has de- 

 scribed, under the name of 

 Tuhularia stelUfera, a Hy- 

 droid which is probably the 

 Hydroid of our Sarsia ?nira- 

 biUs ; as the specimens from 

 which his descriptions were 

 made have not been pre- 



Fig. 283. Adult Coryne mirabilis, seen in profile ; one half natural 

 size. 



Fig. 284. Coryne mirabilis, with proboscis contracted, t, tentacles ; 

 e, veil ; c, circular tube ; o, actinostonie. 



Fi". 285. Coryncr mirabilis, with expanded proboscis, d, proboscis ; 

 a, b, thickness of the bell. 



Fig. 283. 



