Medusce of the Philippines and of Torres Straits. 171 
bell is dull milky yellow and the flexible parts of the tentacles are pink. In 
common with other Cubomedusz it comes to the surface when mature, and 
is then abundant in harbors. The young usually remain in deep water at or 
near the bottom. 
Carybdea alata var. grandis Agassiz and Mayer. 
Carybdea grandis, AGAssIz AND Mayer, 1902, Mem. Museum Comp. Zool. at Harvard College, 
vol. 26, p. 153, plate 6, figs. 26-31. 
Carybdea alata var. grandis, Mayr, 1910, Medusz of the World, vol. 3, p. 511, fig. 329. 
The bell of this medusa becomes 230 mm. high, but the largest specimen of 
this cruise was obtained by the Albatross in Borneo and is only 166 mm. high. 
This tropical Pacific form may be distinguished by its short, wide-flaring 
pedalia and by having only 1 or 2 median eyes upon each sense-club and no 
lateral eyes. When young, however, there are 2 large median and 2 small 
lateral eyes, but the latter appear to fuse later with the median eyes. There 
are 24 velar canals, which are short, branched, and non-anastomosing. C. 
moseri is probably only a young stage of this medusa. In C. alata there are 6 
eyes in each sense-club, and the pedalia are longer and narrower than in the 
large variety grandis. 
The dimensions and characters of the two largest of the three specimens 
found by the Albatross are as follows: 
Locality, date, and number of specimens. 
SE One bay bomen tS” | D. 5594, Sept. 30, 1909, off 
fathoms, 2 specimens. Mount Putri, Borneo. 
Pete th Of) WEL) ee parte «<5 ancvelaxSin aie + ops caps ntkay a ete 120 166 
WraktiiOn belt ce an ei cata taese aren sate 88 144 
UEMPUMIGOF , HOC ANTE 5, <ic,0'e ci sy eter oro icvts ede: aushe Mena tis 38 along inner side. 77 along outer side, 
36 along inner side. 
Width of pedalia at widest part............. 16.5 29 
Width of pedal¥f at base... ..2.5.s:0:s:y0:0 score aie cu ous 14 
Height of sensory niche above velar margin...| 16 31 
Number of eyes in each sense-club........... 2 median, no lateral eyes. 2 median, nolateral eyes. 
MOREA ee cr cca iaotep ie sates sin ee hele a eee | Small, immature. Small. 
Genus CHIROPSALMUS L. Agassiz, 1862. 
Chiropsalmus, AGassiz, L., 1862, Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., vol. 4, p. 174. 
GENERIC CHARACTERS. 
Carybdeide with 4 interradial, branching pedalia which give rise to a 
number of tentacles. Four wide perradially situated stomach-pockets in the 
subumbrella, each of which gives rise to finger-shaped, unbranched, hernia- 
like pouches which project into the bell-cavity. Wide, marginal pouches and 
numerous canals in the velarium. 8 leaf-shaped gonads. 
Chiropsalmus quadrigatus Haeckel. 
Chiropsalmus quadrigatus, HAECKBL, 1880, Syst. der Medusen, p. 447.—Mayer, 1910, Medusz of 
the World, vol. 3, p. 516, fig. 331.—Lieut, 1914, Philippine Journ. Science, vol. 9, p. 197. 
44 specimens of this medusa were collected by the Albatross from the 
Philippines, but not one seems to be mature. 
Light (1914) found this medusa at Culion Bay, Culion, and at Palawan and 
thus it ranges widely in the Philippines. Light’s specimens were larger than 
those found by the Albatross, being at least 200 mm. in diameter and usually 
with 7 tentacles to each pedalium. The tentacles are 1.5 meters or more in 
length and have lavender-colored bands of nematocysts. Light reports that 
