﻿THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



D. General Biology, Ethnology, 

 and Anthropology 



Vol. IX JUNE, 1914 No. 3 



SOME PHILIPPINE SCYPHOMEDUSyE, INCLUDING TWO NEW 

 GENERA, FIVE NEW SPECIES, AND ONE NEW VARIETY 



By S. F. Light 



(From the Zoological Laboratory, College of Liberal Arts, 



University of the Philippines) 



Sixteen text figures 



The Scyphomedusae described in this paper are in the museum 

 of the zoological department of the University of the Philip- 

 pines. Many of them were collected on the joint scientific 

 expeditions of the University of the Philippines and the Bureau 

 of Science, while others were collected at various times by 

 members of the zoological department. They are not the result 

 of a systematic collection of Philippine Scyphomedusse which, 

 judging from the percentage of new species in the Philippine 

 collections of the United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer Alba- 

 tross 1 and in the present collection, should produce many new 

 and interesting forms. 



The collection includes medusae of 12 species in 11 genera, 

 and 1 doubtful immature form. All but three are new to the 

 Philippines, and 2 genera, 5 species, and 1 variety are new 

 to science. A list of the genera and species follows. Those 

 starred are reported from the Philippines for the first time. 

 The new genera and species are indicated by black-faced type. 



7. Catostylus purpuras Mayer. 

 *8. Mastigias papua L. Agassiz. 

 *9. Acromitus maculosus gen. et sp. 



1. Chiropsalmus quadrigatus Hae- 



ckel. 

 *2. Dactylometra quinquecirrha L. 



Agassiz, "Chrysaora stage." 

 3. Aurellia labiata Chamisso and 



Eysenhardt. 

 *4. Cassiopea polypoides Keller var. 



culionensis var. nov. 

 *5. Cassiopea medusa sp. nov. 

 *6. Cephea cephea (Forskal) Mayer. 



nov. 

 N 10. Lobonema mayeri sp. nov. 

 *11. Lobonemoides gracilis gen. et sp. 



nov. 

 "12. Rhopilema visayana sp. nov. 

 13. Cassiopea polypoides Keller (?). 



1 Mayer, A. G., Medusae of the World, Pub. Carnegie Inst. Wash. (1910), 

 No. 109, 3. 



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