CLYTIA JOHNSTONI. 53 



had mostly shed their reproductive buds. 

 Neither before, nor since this period, has this 

 species been recorded for Hastings. It came 

 in great profusion, and vanished suddenly, and 

 completely. Possibly some unusual set of the 

 sea-currents may have brought the embryos 

 to this shore. The specimen in the preservative 

 bears the gonophores, and the free reproductive 

 buds will be found separately in a tube. 



Sub-order II. — Thecaphora. 



Polypites provided with cup-like receptacle of 

 the Polypary. 



Family— CAMPANULARIID^E. 



Clytia Johnstoni, Aider. (Fig. 11). 



2 specimens in liquid. 



specimens With this species is introduced 

 20, 21. those hydroids in which the 

 polypary is extended, and expanded into a 

 finely formed cup, so as to provide protection 

 and support to the polypite. In Clytia 

 Johnstoni, the unbranched stems rise from the 

 creeping base bearing at the ends beautiful 



