SARSIAD^. 



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Family SARSIAD^ Forbes. 



SarsiadcE Fokhks (itsIi: A<^ass.). Hrit. Nakid-fvi-d Mcilusii'. p. 54. 1848. 

 Samiailce Agass. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., IV. pp. 184, '217, 339. 18G2. 



CORYNE Gart. 



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



Syncorjimi Ehhexb. {p. p.). Corall. des Rothen Meeres. 1834. Hydra. 



Stipula Saks. Bidrag til Sciedyr. Nat. 1829. Hydra'. 



HermUi JoiiyiST. British Zoophytes, p. 111. 1838. Hydra. 



Coryne Agass. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., IV. p. 339. 18G'2. Hydra. 



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



Siheniu Du.j. ; in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1845. Medusa. 



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



Fig. 284. 



Fig. 285. 



Coryne mirabilis Agass. 



Coryne 7nirabilis Agass. Cont. Nat. Hist. U. S., IV. pp. 185-217, Figs. 



9-31 ; PI. 20, Figs. 1 -9 ; PI. 23% Fig. 12 ; III. PI. IP, Figs. 14, 



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

 Sarsia mirabi/is Agass. ; in Mem. Am. Acad., IV. p. 224, Pis. 4, 5. 

 Sarsia mirabilis Stimps. Mar. In v. Grand Manan, p. 11. 1853. 

 Oceania tubitlosa Gould (non Sars). Inv. of Mass., p. 348. 1841. 

 Sarsia ylacmUs Mokch ; in Beskriv. af Groenland, p. 95. 1857. 

 Tubularia stellifera Couth. ; in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., H. p. 56. 

 Tubularia stellifera Goui.D. 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- 

 dusae, just freed from the 

 Hydrarium, swarm near the 

 surface on any sunny day. 

 Captain Couthouy has de- 

 scribed, under the name of 

 Tubularia stellifera, a Hy- 

 droid which is probably the 

 Hydroid of our Sarsia mira- 

 bilis ; 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, witli proboscis contracted, t, tentacles ; 

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



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

 a, b, thickness of the bell. 



Fig. 283. 



