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Laodiceidae L. Agassiz. 

 (Sensu Brown, 1907). 



Laodicea Lesson, 1843. 



{Sensu em. Browne, 1907; Bigelow 1909a). 



Laodicea cruciata (Forskal). 



Medusa cruciata Forskil, 177.5, p. 110; 1776, taf. 33, fig. 8. 

 Laodicea cruciata L. Agassiz, 1862, p. 350. 



(For synonymy, see Mayer, 1910, p. 201). 



As Mayer points out, the identity of the Medusa crticiata Forskal 

 with Laodicea cruciala L. Agassiz and later authors (= Thaumantias 

 meditcrranea Gengenbaur 1856, and Thaumantias tmdulata Forbes and 

 Goodsir 1853), is doubtful. But at least there is nothing in Forskal's 

 figure to forbid it, and it will tend toward stability of nomenclature to 

 use L. cruciata, referring it, however, to Forskal, not to L. Agassiz. 



The Bache collection contains a single specimen of this common 

 and well-known species, which adds nothing to previous accounts. 



Station 10,206, surface, 1 specimen. 



Eucopidae Gegenbaur. 



Aequorea aequorea (Forskal). 



Medusa aequorea Forskal, 1775, p. 110; 1776, pi. 32. 



(For synonymy, see Mayer, 1910, p. 325, and Bigelow, 1913, p. 38). 



Station 10,161, surface, 1 very fragmentary specimen, 60 mm. in 

 diameter. 



This specimen, undoubtedly an Aequorea, apparently belongs here, 

 but is too imperfect to add anything to previous accounts. 



TRACHOMEDUSAE. 



Trachynemidae Gegenbaur. 



Aglaura hemistoma Peron and Lesueur. 



Aglaura hemistoma Peron & Lesueur, 1809, p. 351. 



(For synonjony, see Bigelow, 1909a, p. 119, and Browne, 1916, p. 196). 



Station 



10,161 surface, 7 specimens. 



10,166 100-0 meters, 2 specimens. 



