96 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1835. H. Rathke, (Professor, of Dorpat). " Beschreibung der Oceania Blumenbachii, einer bei Sevastopol 



gefundenen leuchtenden Meduse," in the ' Memoires presentes h. rAcademie Imperiale 



des Sciences de St. Petersbourg/ vol. ii, witb an excellent plate. 



The animal figured and described in this paper is a very remarkable one^ and evidently 



sui generis. It is not a true Oceania, nor a member of the family Oceanidm, but of 



that section of the Sarsiadce which wiU probably eventually assume the position of an 



independent group including Bougainvillea and Lizzia. The umbrella is hemispherical, 



bordered by eight compound tentacular bulbs, of a bright yellow colour, from each of 



which rise three filiform, highly extensile, white tentacula. The peduncle is four-lobed, 



broad, striped with white and yellow, and opens by a mouth surrounded by four Hps, with 



tentacular and gland-tipped prolongations arranged in a pinnate fashion. 



1835. M. Sars. ' Beskrivelser og Jagttagelser over nogle moerkelige eller nyei havet ved den Bergenske 



kyst lebende dyr af Polypernes, Acalephernes,' &c. Bvo, Bergen. 

 This very interesting work is in the Norwegian language. In it Phorcynia cruciata and 

 Thaumantias hemisphcerica are mentioned as Norwegian species, and the following new 

 species described and figured : 



1. Oceania ampullacea, p. 23, t. iv, fig. 8. 



2. Oceania octocostata, p. 24, t. iv, fig. 9. This is our Stomobrachium octo- 

 costatum. 



3. Oceania saltatoria, p. 25, t. iv, fig. 10. This appears to be a Circe by its form. 

 No ovaries are shown in the figure. It has sixteen tentacula. It is the Pandea 

 saltatoria of Lesson. 



4. Oceania (?) tuhulosa, p. 28, t. iv, fig. 11. — Sarsia tubulosa. 



6. Thaumantias multicirrata, p. 25, t. viii, fig. 13. 



7. Thaumantias (?) plana, p. 26, t. v, fig. 11. 



8. Cytceis octopunctata, p. 38, t. vi, fig. 14. — Lizzia octopunctata. 



1836. In the ninth volume of the 'Magazine of Natural History' (Loudon's) is a " Catalogue of the 



Species of Rayed Animals found in Ireland, as selected from the papers of the late 

 J. Templeton, Esq., of Cranmore, with notices of Localities, and with some Descriptions 

 and Illustrations by Robert Templeton, Esq." 



This list is of considerable value, and shows that the distinguished naturalist, from whose 

 papers it was compiled, had taken great interest in the Acalephse. Of the species he 

 enumerates, the following appear to belong to the Pulmograda Gymnopthalmata. 

 " Piliscelotus. Body hyaline, hemispherical, the apex somewhat produced, and terminating 

 in a fleshy, elongated, spindle-shaped appendix. Margin of the body with four moderately 

 long tentacida, each tentaculum arising from a small tubercle. P. vitreus (p, 302, f. 48). 

 Hyaline, bell-shaped, with four brown tentacula arising from the margin, nearly equidistant ; 

 the centre produced into a long, dark brown appendage, somewhat thickened in the 

 middle. Found in the pools on the limestone rocks, at the Whitehead, June 25th, 1813. 

 Moving with a pretty quick but steady motion, by expanding and collapsing the body, 

 which was so extremely transparent, that scarcely any part was visible but the dark brown 

 appendage and the marginal tentacula. The marginal tentacula were dilated at their 

 base." Anomalous as this creature is represented, I hardly doubt that it is other than 

 Sarsia tubulosa accidentally turned inside out, as I have elsewhere observed. A curious 

 Medusa, having a simple umbrella without tentacula at the margin, is figured at Cut 47. 

 It is described as " Ocyrhose (?), Peron (Cassiopeia (?), Lam.) cruciata. Hyaline, four arms, 

 pale purple, corrugated ; eight darker, fine rays, and numerous dusky obsolete ones." The 

 figure seems to represent a naked-eyed species, but it may be some mutilated Pulmograde 

 of higher rank. It would be unsafe, without new observations, to admit this form into 

 systematic lists. AH the other forms mentioned by Templeton (except " Medusa 

 scintillans of Macartney," which probably refers to Thaumantias hemisphcBricd) are 

 members of higher groups, and some of them, such as his " jEquorea (?) radiata," 

 monstrous and mutilated Aureliee. 



