﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  no 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  manubrium 
  definitely 
  free 
  except 
  its 
  two 
  extremities. 
  

   It 
  is 
  doubtful 
  whether 
  larger 
  series 
  would 
  show 
  that 
  this 
  slight 
  differ- 
  

   ence 
  is 
  of 
  much 
  importance; 
  but 
  as 
  no 
  specimens 
  oi 
  jlammea 
  have 
  

   been 
  available 
  for 
  study, 
  the 
  name 
  japonica 
  is 
  retained 
  here. 
  

  

  SARSIA 
  EXIMIA 
  (Allman). 
  

   Coryne 
  eximia 
  Allman, 
  1859, 
  p. 
  141. 
  

  

  Dutch 
  Harbor, 
  May 
  25, 
  surface; 
  5 
  specimens, 
  4-10 
  mm. 
  high; 
  in 
  

   excellent 
  condition. 
  

  

  Petropaulski, 
  June 
  19, 
  surface; 
  1 
  specimen, 
  8 
  mm. 
  high; 
  manu- 
  

   brium 
  torn 
  off. 
  

  

  These 
  specimens 
  agree 
  very 
  well 
  with 
  the 
  various 
  figures 
  of 
  eximia. 
  

   Hartlaub 
  (1907) 
  has 
  given 
  so 
  full 
  an 
  account 
  that 
  no 
  description 
  is 
  called 
  

   forhere 
  further 
  than 
  to 
  point 
  out 
  the 
  mo 
  re 
  import 
  ant 
  specific 
  characters. 
  

   Chief 
  among 
  these 
  is 
  the 
  structure 
  of 
  the 
  manubrium, 
  correlated 
  with 
  

   the 
  presence 
  of 
  ocelli. 
  In 
  all 
  the 
  Albatross 
  examples 
  the 
  manubrium 
  

   is 
  entirely 
  contained 
  within 
  the 
  bell 
  cavity; 
  and 
  in 
  view 
  of 
  the 
  fact 
  

   that 
  the 
  specimens 
  are 
  expanded 
  as 
  a 
  whole, 
  as 
  is 
  shown 
  by 
  the 
  con- 
  

   dition 
  of 
  the 
  tentacles, 
  it 
  appears 
  that 
  the 
  manubrium 
  was 
  short 
  in 
  

   life. 
  The 
  smallest 
  individual 
  is 
  a 
  female, 
  with 
  large 
  eggs; 
  the 
  others 
  

   are 
  males 
  ; 
  in 
  all 
  of 
  them 
  the 
  gonads 
  occupy 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  manu- 
  

   brium, 
  except 
  the 
  lip, 
  and 
  a 
  very 
  short 
  region 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  sj 
  that, 
  

   as 
  Hartlaub 
  (1907) 
  has 
  pointed 
  out, 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  such 
  distinction 
  into 
  

   genital 
  and 
  nutritive 
  zones 
  as 
  there 
  is 
  in 
  S. 
  tubulosa. 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  

   trace 
  of 
  an 
  apical 
  canal 
  or 
  chamber 
  in 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  specimens. 
  

  

  Color. 
  — 
  The 
  ocelli 
  are 
  now 
  pale 
  reddish-brown 
  ; 
  the 
  manubrium 
  pale 
  

   orange. 
  Otherwise 
  the 
  specimens 
  are 
  colorless. 
  No 
  color 
  notes 
  were 
  

   made 
  from 
  life, 
  so 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  quite 
  possible 
  that 
  the 
  bases 
  of 
  the 
  ten- 
  

   tacles 
  were 
  pigmented 
  before 
  preservation. 
  

  

  Sarsia 
  eximia 
  has 
  been 
  recorded 
  from 
  numerous 
  localities 
  on 
  the 
  

   coasts 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain; 
  from 
  the 
  coasts 
  of 
  Normandy 
  and 
  Brittany, 
  

   Iceland, 
  and 
  Norway; 
  and 
  its 
  hydroid 
  is 
  already 
  recorded 
  from 
  

   Juneau, 
  Alaska, 
  by 
  Nutting 
  (1901) 
  and 
  from 
  California 
  by 
  Torrey 
  

   (1902). 
  If 
  the 
  records 
  of 
  -S'. 
  hrachygaster 
  are 
  added, 
  as 
  I 
  believe 
  

   should 
  be 
  done, 
  then 
  Spitzbergen 
  and 
  West 
  Greenland 
  ought 
  to 
  be 
  

   included; 
  and 
  if 
  harentsi 
  be 
  included, 
  the 
  distribution 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  

   is 
  extended 
  nearly 
  to 
  Nova 
  Zembla. 
  

  

  SARSIA 
  JAPONICA 
  Maas. 
  

  

  Sarsia 
  japonica 
  Maas, 
  1909, 
  p. 
  6, 
  pi. 
  1, 
  fig. 
  1. 
  

  

  Station 
  4783; 
  about 
  35 
  specimens, 
  the 
  largest 
  about 
  8 
  mm. 
  high. 
  

   The 
  specimens 
  were 
  so 
  inextricably 
  tangled 
  with 
  one 
  another 
  and 
  

   with 
  copepods 
  that 
  only 
  about 
  10 
  were 
  separable 
  from 
  the 
  mass. 
  All 
  

   are 
  much 
  contracted, 
  and 
  most 
  of 
  them 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  damaged. 
  

  

  The 
  only 
  important 
  respect 
  in 
  which 
  they 
  differ 
  from 
  Maas's 
  figure 
  

   is 
  that 
  the 
  manubria 
  fill 
  the 
  bell 
  cavities 
  almost 
  entirely; 
  but 
  this 
  is 
  

  

  