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stand in some relation to Chun's Galcolaria nionoica. As to the complication of the teeth at 

 the basal part of the nectophore Chun does not give any detail at all, and we are quite in the 

 dark as to what he means. In our two specimens we found the followino- structure. In PI. IX 

 fig. 77 we give a sketch of the lower part of the nectophore seen from the dorsal side, the 

 hinderwall of the nectosac slightlj- turned upwards. Proximally two lobes are developed, which 

 are of the same length, the right one overlaps the left one so that nearly half of the latter is 

 covered. Opposite on the ventral side, near the hinderwall of the nectosac. are three lobes of an 

 irregular shape, the two lateral ones are larger, especially their outer margin is longer, so that 

 they have an inclined position towards the central odd lobe, which is very much narrower. 

 All three have the pecularity of possessing at their top an irregular swelling which looks as 

 if it had been pasted on the round ends of these lobes. Between the two dorsal and the three 

 ventral lobes are situated laterally two lobes one on each side. These have the shape of 

 an oar beginning as a narrow tube, gradually widening and ending more or less clubshaped. 

 These lateral lobes are twice as long as the dorsal ones. In our figure they are bent towards 

 the interior of the nectosac, probabl_\- through contraction by preservation. We wonder whether 

 Chun's "abweichende Bildung" has some resemblance to our structure of the basal part of 

 the nectophore. 



The canals in the nectosac were entirely invisible through bad preservation. 



No trace of stem and appendages or inferior nectophore was to be found. 



38. Galeolaria CJumi nov. spec. PI. IX, figg. 78, 79. 



Stat. 168. Anchorage North of Sabuda-island. Cat. 97 E. (3). formald. 4°/^. 2 superior nectophores. 

 Stat. 194. Lat. i°53'.5 S., Long. 126° 39' E. Cat. 23 A. E. (3). formald. 4°/^. One superior 

 nectophore. 



The three superior nectophores of this new species measure 4, 4Y.,, 3V., mm. They are 

 the smallest Galeolarinae which have been found up to this date. 



They differ from Galeolaria biloba (Sarsii) and nwnoica in the course of the canals 

 which is as in Diphyopsiiiae, the lateral canals not standing in any connection with the ventral 

 one and they differ from Galcolaria triincata in the presence of two small lobes (PI. IX, 

 fi&- 79) at the ventral posterior part of the nectophore, whilst any resemblance to Chun's 

 Galeolaria inflata cannot be made out as his description 88 is insufficient. A difference between 

 the two can be found in the length of the somatocyst which in Galeolaria inflata attains V 

 of the whole length of the nectophore, whilst in Galeolaria Chimi it surpasses half the length. 

 The somatocyst is very much developed, narrows gradually towards its base; its superior third 

 part runs closely near the hinderwall of the nectosac. 



No trace of stem or appendages was to be found. 



