SAESIAD^. 



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Family SARSIAD^ Forbes. 



Sarsiadce Forbes (reslr. Agass.). Brit. Naked-eyed MedussB, p. 54. 1848. 

 Sarsiadce Agass. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., IV. pp. 184, 217, 339. 1862. 



COEYNE Gart. 



Coryne Gart.; in Pall. Elen. Zooph. 1774. Hydra. 



Syncoryna Ehrexb. {p. p.). Corall. des Rothen Meeres. 1834. Hydra. 



Slipula Sars. Bidrag til SdedjT. Nat. 1829. Hydra. 



Ilermia J OHXST. British Zoophytes, p. 111. 1838. Hydra. 



Coryne Agass. Cout. Nat. Hist. U. S., IV. p. 339. 1862. Hydra. 



Sarsia Less. Zooph. Acal., p. 333. 1843. Medusa, 



Sihenio Duj. ; in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1845. Medusa. 



Sarsia Agass.; in Mem. Am. Acad., p. 224. 1849. Medusa. 



Coryne mirabilis Agass. 



Cortjne mirabilis Agass. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S.,IV. pp. 185-217, Figs. 



9-31 ; PI. 20, Figs. 1 -9 ; Pi. 23*, Fig. 12 ; HI. PI. 11°, Figs. 14, 



15; Pis. 17-19. 1860-62. 

 'Sarsia mirabilis Agass. ; in Mem. Am. Acad., IV. p. 224, Pis. 4, 5. 

 Sarsia iniVaiiVi's Stijips. Mar. Inv. Grand Manan, p. 11. 1853. 

 Oceania tubulosa Gotjld (jjon Sars). Inv. of Mass., p. 348. 1841. 

 Sarsia glacialis MoRCH ; in Beskriv. af Greenland, p. 95. 1857. 

 Tubularia slellifera CoUTH. ; in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., H. p. 56. 

 Tubularia stellifera Gould. Inv. Mass., p. 350. 1841. 



This Medusa (Figs. 283, 284, 285) is one of the 

 earliest visitants of our wharves. The ice has 

 scarcely gone from the shores 

 when numbers of young Me- 

 dus£e, just freed from the 

 Hydrarium, swarm near the 

 surface on any sunny day. 

 Captaia Couthouy has de- 

 scribed, under the name of 

 Tubularia stellifera, a Hy- 

 droid which is probably the 

 Hydroid of our Sarsia mira- 

 hilis ; as the specimens from 

 which his descriptions were 

 made have not been pre- 



Fig. 283. Adult Coryne mirabilis, seen in profile ; one half natural 

 size. 



Fig. 284. Coryne mirabilis, with proboscis contracted, t, tentacles ; 

 e, veil ; c, circular tube ; o, actinostome. 



Fig. 285. Coryne mirabilis, with expanded proboscis, d, proboscis ; 

 a, 6, thickness of the bell. 



