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mine the genus, it is hardly enough for the species. The nectocalyx resembles 

 closely that of G. aurantiaca, Vogt.* 



Although Galeolaria is not recognized by some naturalists as a distinct genus 

 from Diphyes, the form of the nectocalices, the course of the gastrovascular 

 tubes, and especially the flap-like appendages to the inferior (posterior) swim- 

 ming-bell, are so characteristic that it is here looked upon as a distinct genus. 



HYDROIDA. 

 Halitiara f ormosa, gen. nov. et sp. 



Plate IV. Fig. 2. 



The young of a new Tubularian medusa was taken by us at the Tortugas. 

 Generic characteristics are as follows : — 



The bell is tall with a small apical projection. Chymiferous tubes, four in 

 number, simple, broad, without lateral glands. There are four long tentacles 

 which correspond with the radial tubes, between each pair of which are three 

 small tentacles. Otocysts wanting. 



H. f ormosa, sp. nov. 



The bell is tall, its height being double the diameter. At its apex it bears 

 a slight apical protuberance. The surface of the bell is smooth, and its wall 

 thin and transparent. The proboscis (manubrium) is unpedunculated, and 

 hangs down about one third the depth of the bell cavity. The basal portion 

 is filled with spherical cells, which are probably ova. The lips are smooth and 

 without appendages. 



coast in the summer of 1880. Leuckart (Siphon, von Xizza, p. 33, note 1) speaks 

 of the same genus from the coast of Greenland. Abyla, Halistcmma, and Apohmia 

 have not yet been taken in our waters. There is in the collection of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission for 1881 a mutilated fragment of the stem of a Physophore, which may 

 have belonged to an Apohmia, and a new genus, Haliphyta, which is elsewhere 

 described. 



* The choice between the two generic names Galeolaria and Suculccolaria to 

 designate this medusa is purely arbitrary. Lesueur gave the former to the anterior, 

 the latter to the posterior nectocalyx of the same Diphyid. Vogt named the first 

 complete form of this medusa Epfbulia awramtiaca (later also Galeolaria auran I 

 Epibulia must give place to either of the two previous names of L< SHOOT. The 

 specific name, Jiliformis, Delle Chiaje, adopted by Leuckart (Oaleokuria filifo 

 although the oldest, is derived from a wrong identification. The specific name quad- 

 rivalvis adopted by Qegenbanr, Sara, Keferstein, and Ehlera, with others, from Lesueor 



and Blainville (Actin. Zobl. Ail.. VI. 6), has more in its favor, but the fragment to 

 which it is applied by Lesueur cannot be distinguished from those other bells which 

 bear the names biaeuta and minuto. The oldest specific oame applied to a GaUo- 

 Iwria the ose of which leaves me no doubt of the animal intruded, is that of auran- 

 tiaca by Vogt. To choose between it and quadrivalvLs is very difficult 



