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mature specimens about one inch in long diameter and about half as broad. 
Reported from Baffins Bay, Massachusetts Bay, Nahant, A. Ag.; Newport 
Harbor, April, Mayer. 
Gonionemus murbachii Mayer. (FIG. 60). 
Medusa with low hemispherical bell when in repose, but subconical when 
in active motion and contraction ; radial canals four, prominent and with 
line of brownish pigment over their course ; marginal tentacles numerous, 
varying from sixteen to eighty or more, rather long but capable of being 
greatly contracted; rather prominent basal bulbs of brownish color tinged 
with pale green ; a characteristic of the tentacles is the presence of adhe- 
sive or suctorial pads a short distance from the tips, beyond which they 
Fic. 60 BiG. 61 
FiG. 60.— Gontonemus murbachi? Mayer. 
Fic. 61. — Persa incolorata McCr. (Modified from McCrady.) 
often are bent at a sharp angle ; manubrium of moderate size, quadrate in 
form and with prominent frilled oral lobes ; gonads suspended in sinuous 
folds beneath the radial canals ; otocysts present in variable numbers and 
disposed between the bases of the tentacles. 
fersa incolorata McCr. (FIG. 61). 
Bell thimble-shaped, walls thin, the entire medusa colorless except the 
pale yellowish gonads, which are oval and attached to the walls of two 
opposite radial canals, of which there are eight, only two of which are very 
definite ; margin of the bell devoid of tentacles, but nodulated by the 
presence of batteries of nematocysts. 
(Condensed from McCrady’s account, Gymn. Charl. Harb., p. 104.) 
Liriope scutigera McCr. 
Described by McCrady (of. cz¢., p. 106) from Charleston Harbor, and 
noted by Mayer from Florida (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. XXXVII, 
No. 2, p. 64). Also from Newport Harbor, by latter observer. 
