﻿NO. 
  104fi. 
  PACIFIC 
  MEDUSAE 
  AND 
  SIPHONOPHORAE—BIGELOW. 
  69 
  

  

  Station 
  4951, 
  300-0 
  fathoms; 
  1 
  entire 
  colony. 
  

  

  Station 
  5064, 
  300-0 
  fathoms; 
  4 
  entire 
  colonies. 
  

  

  The 
  proportions 
  of 
  the 
  smallest 
  are, 
  superior 
  nectophore 
  5 
  mm, 
  

   long, 
  inferior 
  one 
  11 
  mm.; 
  of 
  the 
  largest, 
  superior 
  nectophore 
  6 
  mm., 
  

   inferior 
  16 
  mm. 
  

  

  These 
  few 
  specimens, 
  not 
  in 
  very 
  good 
  condition, 
  agree 
  very 
  weU 
  

   with 
  the 
  previous 
  accounts 
  of 
  this 
  well-known 
  species. 
  The 
  dis- 
  

   tinctions 
  between 
  tetragona 
  and 
  eschsclioltzi 
  are 
  given 
  elsewhere 
  

   (191 
  1&, 
  p. 
  216), 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  being 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  the 
  canals 
  of 
  

   the 
  posterior 
  nectosac 
  (19116, 
  pi. 
  14, 
  fig, 
  7), 
  

  

  ABYLOPSIS 
  ESCHSCHOLTZU 
  (Huxley). 
  

   Aglaismoides 
  eschscholtzii 
  Huxley, 
  1859, 
  p. 
  60, 
  pi. 
  4, 
  fig. 
  2. 
  

  

  (For 
  synonjony 
  and 
  description, 
  see 
  Bigelow, 
  19116, 
  p. 
  226.) 
  

   Station 
  4928, 
  surface; 
  1 
  specimen 
  mth 
  both 
  nectophores. 
  

   Genus 
  BASSIA 
  L. 
  Agassiz, 
  1862, 
  

  

  BASSIA 
  BASSENSIS 
  (Quoy 
  and 
  Gaimard) 
  Bigelow. 
  

   Diphyes 
  bassensis 
  Quoy 
  and 
  Gaimard, 
  1834, 
  p. 
  91, 
  pi. 
  7, 
  figs. 
  18-20. 
  

   (For 
  synonymy, 
  see 
  Bigelow, 
  19116, 
  p. 
  229.) 
  

  

  Station 
  4921, 
  surface; 
  1 
  superior 
  and 
  6 
  inferior 
  nectophores. 
  

  

  Station 
  4952, 
  surface; 
  3 
  superior 
  and 
  9 
  inferior 
  nectophores. 
  

  

  The 
  material 
  is 
  not 
  in 
  good 
  condition, 
  being 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  crumpled, 
  

   and 
  all 
  the 
  nectophores 
  are 
  detached 
  and 
  stems 
  and 
  appendages 
  lost; 
  

   but 
  the 
  nectophores, 
  particularly 
  the 
  posterior 
  ones, 
  are 
  sufficiently 
  

   well 
  preserved 
  to 
  show 
  their 
  identity. 
  

  

  Subfamily 
  G-ALKOLARIlSr^E 
  Ch\an, 
  1897. 
  

   Genus 
  GALEOLARIA 
  Blainville, 
  1834. 
  

  

  GALEOLARIA 
  AUSTRALIS 
  Quoy 
  and 
  Gaimard, 
  

  

  Plate 
  5, 
  fig. 
  6. 
  

  

  Galeolaria 
  ausiralis 
  Quoy 
  and 
  Gaimard, 
  1834, 
  p. 
  42, 
  pi. 
  5, 
  figs. 
  29-31. 
  

   (For 
  a 
  discussion 
  of 
  the 
  history 
  and 
  synonymy 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  see 
  Bigelow, 
  19116, 
  

   pp. 
  233, 
  238.) 
  

  

  Station 
  4952, 
  surface; 
  45 
  anterior 
  and 
  13 
  posterior 
  nectophores; 
  

   the 
  largest 
  of 
  the 
  former 
  is 
  16 
  mm. 
  long, 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  12 
  mm. 
  

  

  Station 
  4955, 
  surface; 
  about 
  40 
  superior 
  nectophores. 
  

  

  Station 
  4978, 
  surface; 
  16 
  superior 
  nectophores. 
  

  

  The 
  material 
  is 
  in 
  good 
  condition 
  and 
  has 
  been 
  compared 
  with 
  

   more 
  extensive 
  material 
  from 
  the 
  eastern 
  Pacific. 
  The 
  anterior 
  

   nectophore 
  is 
  characterized 
  by 
  having 
  two 
  large 
  ventral 
  wings, 
  but 
  

   no 
  dorso-basal 
  or 
  latero-basal 
  teeth; 
  the 
  posterior 
  nectophore 
  by 
  

  

  