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111 the Pacific the genus is represented by Tima saghalinensis Bigelow (1913, p. 35), a large 

 species, distinguished by its very short peduncle and by the lips being extraordinarily complexly folded. 



Material: 



I have had at my disposal for investigation numerous specimens from Danish waters, but only 

 4 specimens from one locality outside the Danish area : 



Lat. 55io' N., Long. i55' E. May 3rd 1905. Depth 33 m. Young-fish trawl. "Thor" stat. 14 (05). 

 - 4 specimens, diameter: 35, 42, 43, and 58 mm. 



The Danish specimens have been found at 23 different localities in the North Sea, the Skager- 

 rak, the Kattegat, and the northern part of the Sound. The species has also been found in the north- 

 ern part of the Lillebelt. 



I am not going to give a thorough account of the Danish finds in this place, but shall restrict 

 myself to make some few remarks on the appearance of a number of young specimens. 



Most of the specimens, examined by me, are large and medium-sized, the largest being 58 mm 

 in diameter. But there are also some young specimens, the smallest being 6 mm. The height of a 

 specimen, 6 mm wide, is 4 mm, the gelatinous substance being 2 mm thick apically, and the depth of 

 the bell-cavity being likewise 2 mm. - The peduncle is short in these small specimens. In a specimen, 

 13 mm wide, the peduncle is 4 mm long, 3 mm wide at the base. 



When the diameter is below 13 mm only slight traces of gonads are present, and they are 

 confined to the subumbrella part of the radial canals, ranging from the base of the peduncle very 

 nearly to the circular vessel. 



Three of the specimens, which are 6, 7, and 10 mm wide, have 8 tentacles, all alike; 8 adradial 

 swellings just visible indicate the places of the remaining tentacles. In two specimens, n and 13 mm 

 wide, one of the adradial tentacles has developed, but is much smaller than the 8 perradial and inter- 

 radial ones. One specimen, 13 mm wide, possesses 16 tentacles, the perradial and interradial all alike, 

 while the others are much smaller and in different stages of development. I have not seen specimens 

 with less than 8 tentacles, and these have always been of equal size in the same individual. The 

 number of marginal vesicles in these small specimens (613 mm) is 2934. A specimen, 23 mm wide, 

 has about 84 marginal vesicles. 



One of the specimens from the above-mentioned locality in the western part of the North Sea 

 is abnormal, in so far as one of the four quadrants is narrower than the others, and there are no tent- 

 acles between the two adjacent radial canals. I have observed the same abnormality in no less than 

 3 of the Danish specimens. 



Distribution (see Chart XIV): 



This large medusa seems to be strictly confined to the North Sea, the Skagerrak, and the 

 Kattegat. It has been recorded from Berwich Bay (Johnston 1833), May Island (Dal yell 1847 48), 

 Burtisland (Forbes 1848), and St. Andrews Bay (Forbes 1848, Me Intosh 1890, Crawford 1891); 

 all these localities are at the southern part of the east coast of Scotland. According to Me Intosh 

 the species abounds all along the eastern shores of Great Britain to the estuary of the Thames (Me 



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