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Laomedea amphora Agassi/., Contributions, vol. iv, pp.311, 31 1, li^ 

 Plate 30, Plato 31, figs. 1-8, 18(54 ; A. Agassi/,, Catalogn.-. p. 



Long Island Sound to Gulf of Saint Lawrence; nortlin-n r,;i>ts of 

 Europe, Isle of Man. New Haven, on piles of Long Wharf; Thimlk 

 Islands, near New Haven ; Vineyard Sound, off Gay Head; aluiinl.mt 

 on the timbers of the wharves at Eastport, Maine. 



OBELIA DIAPHANA Verrill. (p. 327.) 



Thaumantias diaphana Agassiz, Mem. Amer. Acad., vol. iv, p. 300, figg. 1, 2, 1849 

 (? non Morch). Eacope diaphana (pars) Agassiz, Contributions, vol. iv, Plate 

 33, fig. 2, 1862 ; A. Agassiz, Catalogue, p. 83, figs. 115-125. 



Long Island Sound to Massachusetts Bay. Abundant in New Haven 

 Harbor and Vineyard Sound, on Zostera, Fucus, etc. 



OBELIA OENICULATA Allman. (p. 407.) 



Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xiii, May, 1864 (t. Hincks); Hincks, Brit. Hyd. 

 Zoophytes, p. 149, Plate 25, fig. 1, 1868. Sertularia geniculataLinut, Syst. Nat., 

 ed. x, sp. 23; ed. xii, sp. 21, p. 1312; Pallas, Eleneh. Zooph., p. 117, 1766. 

 Laomedea geniculata Lauiouroux, Pol. Flex., p. 208; Johnston, Brit. Zooph., ed. 

 ii, p. 103, Plate 25, figs. 1, 2. Eucope diaphana (pars) Agassiz, Contributions, 

 vol. iv, p. 322, Plate 34, figs. 1-9, 1862. Eucope alternata A. Agassiz, Catalogue . 

 p. 86, 1865. 



Long Island Sound to Labrador. Northern Europe, from North Cape 

 to Great Britain. Common near New Haven ; at Thimble Islands ; 

 Watch Hill, Rhode Island ; Vineyard Sound, 4 to 15 fathoms ; Massa- 

 chusetts Bay; Casco Bay ; Bay of Fundy, and northward, low-water to 

 40 fathoms, on Laminaria, Rhodytnenia^ etc. 



OBELIA POLYGKENA Verrill. 



Eucope polygena A. Agassiz, Catalogue, p. 88, fig. 126, 1865. 



Off Gay Head, 4 to 5 fathoms, not common. Nahant, Massachusetts 

 (A. Agassiz). 



OBELIA DIVARICATA Verrill. 



Laomedea divaricata McCready, op. cit., p. 195, 1859. Eucope f divaricata A. Agassiz, 

 Catalogue, p. 91, 1865. 



Charleston, South Carolina (McCready, Agassiz). A few specimens 

 were found on floating alga3 in Vineyard Sound, which appear to belong 

 to this species. It is closely allied to 0. fusiformis (A. Agassiz, sp.). 



OBELIA PYRIFORMIS Verrill. (p. 390.) 



Catalogue, p. 83, figs. 127-129, 1865. Laomedea gelatinosa Leidy, Journ. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., Philad., ser. ii, vol. iii, p. 138, 1855 (not Pallas, sp.). 



Long Island Sound to Bay of Fundy. Very abundant on piles of 

 wharves, etc., at Wood's Hole. 



This species is closely allied to the following ; in the latter the young 

 medusa have sixteen tentacles when set free, and the reproductive 

 capsules differ slightly in form. 



