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Miss I. B. J. Sollas on a neio 



possession at each end of a long process. This process affords 

 the most distinctive cliaracter of the species : it is expanded 

 at the base and beset on eacli side with a double row of 

 recurved hooks, which extend with the expanded base along 

 the edge of the statobhist (figs. 1, 2, and 8). 



Owing to the scantiness of tlie material, which consists of 

 a single colony, it is not possible to give a fuller diagnosis, 

 but the following further facts may be added. On the outside 

 of the thick gelatinous ectocyst a number of unicellular algge 



Fio-. 2. 



A statcblast of L. capensis, showing the splitting of the terminal 

 processes previous to germination. 



are lodged. The colony was killed by the use of cocaine and 

 formaline. When the animals were being anaesthetized a 

 counting was made of their tentacles. In one case there 

 were in all 57 (error certainly not more than 3), in another in 

 a less favourable position 70 + (probably about 74). 



The average dimensions of the statoblasts are "8 X "64 mm., 

 tlie length not including the length of the processes, each of 

 which measures •32 mm. The central capsule measured in 

 one case 0*52 x 0*44 mm. The process, w4iich is flattened in 

 the same plane as the statoblast, is beset laterally with a 

 double row of recurved hooks on each side, and these hooks 

 extend to the edge of the expanded base of the process. The 



