pi-oposed. Tho form of the word which I use is that which 

 Professor Agassiz offers in correction of the original one, 

 which was m error as to its ending. 



For a long time the CiUlf of Georgia was the only lo- 

 cality from which this genus was described. In 1894, how- 

 ever, another habitat was discovered far distant, at Y/oods 

 Hole, '^Massachusetts, and since then members of the gemis 

 have been found at the widely separated localities of the 

 Fiji Islands and Alaska, and a closely allied genus, Olin - 

 dias , has been described from the coast of Brazil and the 

 Bahamas, This last instance was that in which Mayer de- 

 scribed a species ( aphrodite ) of Gonionema ; but as a matter 

 of fact this medusa possesses rather the characters of the 

 Oliniadae, two distinct kinds of tentacles and papilliform 

 gonads being present. These far distant localities will in 

 all probability be connected in the fiiture, during the 

 course of further research, by a chain of other localities. 



The history of the Woods Hole Gonionema is interest- 

 ing. In spite of the fact that the "eel-pcnd", at the cen- 

 tre of the village of Woods Hole, connected with the outer 

 harbor by a narrow inlet, is from its location easy of ac- 

 cess to collectors, and although many stvidents of tlie group 

 had investigated the waters around Woods Hole summer after 



