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the other about six inches and a half. The number of lips 

 of the latter was about forty, the radiating canals, each 

 having a long ovisac, about eighty, and the marginal tentacles, 

 by estimation, four hundred." Unfortunately Dr Wright 

 does not say where the specimens were captured, but seeing 

 they were received alive, and that earlier in the volume 

 (p. 193) he designates Mr Fulton as "of Granton Pier," the 

 probability is they were taken in the Eirth of Forth. From 

 the eggs, Campanularian polyps developed. 



The determination of ^quorids being a matter of very 

 considerable difficulty, we have sent one of the Burntisland 

 specimens to Mr E. T. Browne, who has come to the con- 

 clusion that it must be referred to his Aequorea norvegica, 

 described in 1903 from a Norwegian specimen.^ Mr Browne's 

 species is apparently very closely related to Aequorea vitrina, 

 Gosse (1853). 



SCYPHOMEDUSAE. 



Oyanea capillata (Linn.). 



Cyanea capillata, Leslie & Herdman's Catalogue, p. 61. 



A few small examples (2-4 inches in diameter) were 

 observed in Dunbar Harbour on 27th June and 2nd July; 

 one, 6 inches across, on 11th July; and one, 12 inches, on 

 8th August. On 5th October two large dead ones were 

 floating in the harbour. At the fishing-grounds they were 

 numerous in July and August, many being entangled in the 

 nets. During some days of high wind from the north in the 

 last week of August great numbers, mostly of large size, 

 were cast ashore between Aberlady and North Berwick. 



Cyanea capillata, it is scarcely necessary to add, is the 

 "stinging jelly-fish," and is only too well known in the 

 lower reaches of the Firth, where it is an annual source of 

 annoyance to the fisherman. 



Aurelia aurita (Linn.). 



Aurelia aurita, Leslie & Herdman's Catalogue, p. 61, 

 On 3rd, and again on 5th Oct., about a score were seen in 

 Dunbar Harbour, their width ranging from 3 to 6 inches ; and 



^ ^er^ens Museums Aarhog, 1903, No, 4, p. 19. 



