342 THE GLASSY ^QUOREA. 



dilate into a wide circular orifice, of which it formed 

 merely a delicately-membranous margin, the white 

 lines radiating through it (as seen at fig. 7) and pro- 

 longed into long narrow furbelowed filaments, remote 

 from each other, and connected by a sort of a web, 

 waved at its edge. Where the stomach can be I 

 cannot conceive, since the peduncle is nothing but 

 this membranous circle. I passed a slender stick 

 through the orifice without meeting any resistance 

 until it touched the clear, perfectly transparent sub- 

 stance of the umbrella, at the level of the highest 

 part of the sub-umbrella. 



Not a trace of colour appears in the whole animal, 

 which yet is exquisitely beautiful. It was swimming 

 near the surface, a mile or two off" shore, near Water- 

 mouth, when I dipped it, on the afternoon of August 

 26th. In captivity it was moderately active, swim- 

 ming gracefully, but keeping the tentacles generally 

 contracted and inconspicuous. It was luminous when 

 irritated in the dark. 



A day or two afterwards I obtained another speci- 

 men much smaller, not more than ^ inch in diameter, 

 to which I was enabled to apply a higher power. 

 The tentacles in this specimen (perhaps from its con- 

 dition of adolescence) alternated with bulbs not de- 

 veloped into tentacles, and each had at its base a very 

 minute but perfect colourless ocellus, with from two 

 to five highly refractile spherules unsymmetrically 

 included within the globule. Two or three was the 

 most common number; and they were not always 

 of the same size, one being frequently present not half 

 the size of the others. Fig. 6 shows a portion of the 



