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female gonotheca: are much compressed, sessile; the male are stalked, with the stalks pressed in among 

 the female gonothecDe. There are only a small number of almost spherical male gonotheCcC in the 

 coppinia; they are freely placed between the surface of the female aggregate and the outer coils of 

 the tubes. The female gonophores are heteromedusoids; the male reduced cryptomedusoids; the fertile 

 colony has nematocysts dimorphously developed. 



Forma typica: The upper (adcauline) wall of the hydrotheca proiects 1,5—3 times the diameter 

 of the aperture beyond the tubes; the plane of the aperture is parallel with the axis of the branch. 



Forma hrevicyatha: the free portion of the adcauline wall is 0,5 — i times the diameter of the 

 aperture; the aperture itself is turned obliquely upward. 



Material: 



Forma typica: 



"Ingolf" St. 34 65°i7' N., 54°i7' W., depth 55 fathoms 



- - 51 64° [5' N., i4°22' W., 



- - 87 65°02,3'N., 23°56,2'W., - 



- - 92 64°44' N., 32°52' W., 



- - 95 65°i4' N., 30°39' W., 



- - 98 65°38' N., 26°27' W., 

 "Thor" 66°43' N., i5°03' W., 

 Greenland: Davis Strait, depth 66 fathoms (without further details) 



Sukkertoppen, on Boltenia ( — — — ) 

 Godthaab, depth 50—60 fathoms 

 Hunde-Eiland (without further details) 



Cape Tobin, depth 57 fathoms (East-Greenland Expedition) 



Jan Mayen: 70°32' N., 8°io' W., depth 470 fathoms 



Iceland: 4 — 5 miles E. of Bakkefjord, — 70 — 



5 miles E. of Seydisfjord, — 135 — 



64°27' N., i3°27' W., — 150 metres 



The Faroe Islands: 61'' 40' N., 7°4o' W., — 135 fathoms 



6 miles N. by W. of Kalso, — 60 — 

 Forma hrevicyatha: 



The Faroe Islands: 7 miles N. by E. of Myggentes point, depth 57 fathoms 



6 — N. by W. of Kalso _ 60 — 



A rich and well-preserved material of Grammaria abirfiiia from the Trondhjem Fjord afforded 

 an opportunity for further study of the species. Its polyps have an oral part with mainly indifferent 

 endoderm cells above the teiuacle whorl; the true gastral eudoderm exhibits an altogether uniform 

 development. The base of the hydranth is fastened to the wall of the hydrotheca far in between 

 the tubes of the rhizocaulome, by a wreath of small chitinous bodies; this is the only discernible limit 

 between the hydrotheca and its mother stolon, which are otherwise practically of equal breadth. A 

 study of the coppinia (Broch 1917) brought to light several peculiarities. In fertile colonies we find, 



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