22 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



8IPH0N0PH0RAE. 



CALYCOPHOREA. 



SPHAERONECTIDAE. 



1. Sphaeronectes truncata (Will) Schneider. 



Ersaea truncata Will, Horae tergestinae, 1844, p. 82, pi. 2, fig. 28. 

 [Triest.] 



Monophyes gracilis Claus, Schriften zool. inhalts, Wien, 1874, 

 p. 29, pi. 4, fig. 8-14. 



R. I. — Newport. 



Only eudoxids have been recorded from New England. 



DIFHYIDAE. 



2. DiPHYES APPENDICULATA Eschscholtz. 



Eschscholtz, System der Acalephen, 1829, p. 138, pi. 12, fig. 7. 

 "NoRDLiCHEN STiLLEN Meere." Bigelow, Mem. Mus. comp. 

 zool., 1911, vol. 38, p. 248, pi. 7, figs. 5, 6; pi. 8, figs. 7, 8; pi. 9, fig. 

 6; pi. 10, fig. 6; pi. 11, fig. 1. 



Warmer parts of a^l oceans. 



Mass. — South of Marthas Vineyard. 

 R. I. — Newport, late summer. 



3. DiPHYOPSis DisPAR (Chamisso and Eysenhardt) Haeckel. 



Diphyes dispar Chamisso and Eysenhardt, Nova acta Acad. 

 Leop. -Carol., 1821, vol. 10, p. 365, pi. 33, fig. 4. "In mare paci- 



riCO AEQUINOCTIALIS." 



Diphyopsis compressa Haeckel, Rep. sci. results .... H. M. S. 

 Challenger, 1888, Zool., vol. 28, Siphonophorae, p. 153, pis. 33, 34. 



A southern species; accidental on the New England coast south 

 of Cape Cod. 



Mass. — Nantucket, and south of Marthas Vineyard; surface 

 waters of the Gulf Stream. 



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