MEDUSA OF THE PHILIPPINES* AND OF TORRES STRAITS. 
By AuLrrep GoLpsBorouGcH MAYER. 
INTRODUCTION. 
In 1909, Dr. Hugh M. Smith, the then Acting United States Com- 
missioner of Fisheries (now Commissioner), gave to the author for 
study a part of the collection of meduse now under consideration in 
this article, and the authorities of the Smithsonian Institution kindly 
permitted the use of a table in the building in Washington while 
engaged upon this work. In 1910 another part of the collection was 
sent to Princeton University, where the author occupied a research 
room in Guyot Hall. Thus the collection was studied under the most 
advantageous conditions and it is a pleasure to express my sense of 
indebtedness to the authorities of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, 
the Smithsonian Institution, and Princeton University for the oppor- 
tunities I have enjoyed. 
In September and October 1913 the writer was leader of the expedi- 
tion sent by the Carnegie Institution of Washington to Torres Straits, 
Australia, and spent five weeks on the Murray Islands, about 70 miles 
south of the New Guinea coast and within 6 miles of the seaward edge 
of the Great Barrier Reef of Queensland. 
Thirty-one scyphomeduse were obtained by the Albatross in the 
Philippines and adjacent regions, the list of species being as follows: 
CARYBEID. RHIZOSTOMATA. 
Carybdea rastonii Haacke. Cassiopea andromeda var. baduensis, noy. 
Carybdea alata var. grandis Agassiz and var. 
Mayer. Cephea octostyla (Forskal). 
Chiropsalmus quadrigatus Haeckel. Cephea cephea var. coerulea Vanhoffen. 
CORONATA. Cotylorhiza pacifica, sp. nov. 
; a? Catostylus purpurus Mayer. 
ane gkes Stecnstrup. Gateatvles feeusesls za nov. 
Linuche unguiculata forma aquila. Cota deleane iets Manas: 
Atolla bairdii forma wyvillei Haeckel. Ee Se i 
Hot = se ag a Lychnorhiza bornensis, sp. nov 
Atolla bairdii forma valdivize Vanhéffen. Es pape A, pnts : 
SEMZOSTOM &. Mastigias ocellata Haeckel. 
Pelagia panopyra Péron and Lesueur. Phyllorhiza luzoni, sp. nov. 
Chrysaora melanaster Brandt. Versura maasi Mayer. 
Dactylometra africana Vanhdoffen. Lobonema smithii Mayer. 
Sanderia malayensis Gétte. Thysanostoma thysanura Haeckel. 
Discomedusa philippina Mayer. Lorifera lorifera var. pacifica Schultze. 
Aurellia aurita Lamarck. 
Aurellia labiata Chamisso and Eysenhardt. 
*Published by permission of Hon. Hugh M. Smith, U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries. 
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