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 attached to the 

 axis. It is only after 

 separation that the 

 appendages grow to a 

 form like that which 

 we are about to de- 

 scribe. The Eudoxia 

 discovered by us at 

 Newport, R. L, al- 

 though probably the 

 same species as that 

 mentioned by Huxley 

 and others, was found 



before its Diphyes was 

 taken. 



A separated frag- 

 ment of one of the 

 ■Eudoxia. Letter- Diphyidae, which in 



2 as Fig. 2. t J le case Q f Diphyes 



as Eudoxia, may be called a Diphyi- 

 >id, and as such it is commonly described, 

 of Eudoxia, or the Diphyizoid 

 of Diphyes is, in a general way, as follows. 

 It is not necessary for me again to more than 

 remind the reader that in these popular papers 

 finer details of stri 



In general outline Eudoxia (Fig. 2) re- 

 nbles Diphyes. The likeness, however, is 

 only a superficial one, as will be seen later in 

 sideration. As it floats or swims in 

 r, those portions of the colony which 

 are prominent are the two gelatinous bell- 

 shaped bodies fastened to each other, end 

 the two nec- 

 tocalyces of Diphyes. Except in the mode of 

 attachment, however, there is little likeness be- 

 neither morphologically or function- 

 Of the two transparent campanulate bodies, the anterior 

 not, in Eudoxia, a nectocalyx, but a thickened, almost con- 



