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GLOSSOCODON, Haeckel, 1864. 

 Qlossocodon tenuirostris, Fewkes. 



Figs. 75-78, Plate 24. 



Liriope tenuirostris, Agassiz, L., 1862, Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., Vol. IV. p. 365. 

 Glossocodon tenuirostris, Fewkos, J. W., 1882, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. at Harvard 



Coll., Vol. IX. p. 278, PI. VII. Figs. 1-9. 

 Liriope cerasiformis ? Maas, O., 1893, Ergeb. der Plankton Exped., Bd. II. K. Q., 



p. 35, Taf. II. Fig, 5. 6. 



This medusa is common at the Tortugas, Florida ; as indeed it is also among 

 the Bahama Islands and along the Cuban Coast. It is met ■sv^ith in consider- 

 al)le numbers in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina ; and occasionally a 

 damaged individual is drifted into Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, by the 

 southerly winds late in the summer months. 



AGLAURA, Peron and Lesceur, 1809. 

 Aglaura hemistoma, Peron and Lesceub. 



Figs. 79, 80, Plate 23. 



Aglaura hemistoma, Peron, F., et Lesueur, C. A., 1809, Tableau des Meduses, p. 



351, No. 73. 

 Aglaura Peronii, Leuckart, R., 1856, Archiv fiir Naturges. Jahrg. 22, p. 10, Taf. 



L Figs 5-7. 



This medusa is occasionally met with in June at the Tortugas, Florida. It 

 is found also in the Mediterranean and is widely distributed throughout the 

 tropical regions of the Atlantic (see Maas, O., 1893, Die Craspedoten Medu- 

 sen der Plankton Expedition, Taf. VII.). A very closely allied species is found 

 in the Tropical Pacific (see Agassiz and Mayer, 1898 ; Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL 

 at Harvard Coll., Vol. XXXII. p. 166). One figure is drawn from a specimen 

 obtained at the Tortugas, Florida. 



Aglaura hemistoma, var- Nausicaa, Haeckel. 



Aglaura Nausicaa, Haeckel, E., 1879, Syst. der Medusen, p. 274, Taf. XVI. Fig. 1. 

 Aglaura vitrea, Fewkes, J. W., 1882, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. at Harvard Coll., Vol. 



IX. p. 277, PI. VII. Fig. 10. 

 Aglaura hemistoma, var. Nausicaa, Maas, O., 1892, Die Craspedoten Medusen der 



Plankton Expedition, Bd. II. K. C, p. 26. 



This variety is occasionally met with at the Tortugas, Florida. 



