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at about the same ti-ne and all the e^c^s were discharged v/ithin 

 fifteen or twenty minutes. The time when the -nedusae are can- 

 tured and Dut i!ito aaua^iuTi does not seen to have any.i-- 

 fluence or, the oeriod of dehiscence, I have taken them in 

 the tov.' at nearly all hours of day and nif^ht, and never had 

 them to denosit their egejs excecL at 5 o'clock in the rooming, 



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The egg of Storotoca ar>icata is soherical and noasures 

 « 14 of a millir.eter in dia-etcr. It is devoid of a -rerbrane 

 and the cytoolasn is rather dense and only sc-r.i-transoarent; 

 however iL is not ac ;ense as the egc: of Stornotoca rugosa, 

 which is extreniely o: aaue and of a challcy-whiLe color, and 

 also slightly larger. The color of the eg-^ of Stpinotpca 

 apicata is a bluish--./niLe. 



A point of interest may be mentioned in this connection. 

 On one occasion, having taken a nu-'ber of Sto^pLoca in the 

 tow at night, they w. re picked out and out into a dish of 

 clean sea-wate:- with ohe intention of allowing them to lay^ 

 and using the eg.'^s for study the next morning. It han :ened 

 that both S'-ecies of Stornotoca that are found at Beaufort 



