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Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



Browne records B. in/undibulum from the Clyde,^ and it is 

 reported from the south coast of England ; but, though 

 known to occur in the North Sea, we have seen no certain 

 records from the east coast of Scotkind, unless the ctenophore 

 recorded by Prof. M'Intosh from St Andrews Bay ,2 under the 

 name of Lesueuria vitrcea, M-Edw., was the present species. 

 Owing to the extreme delicacy of this form it was no easy 



BoUna infundibulum (Fab.). rower (little more than half) 

 A medium-sized specimen sketched ^hen seen in the sagittal 



the aspect here shown (see the figures in Vanhoffen's paper). 

 The jelly is very soft, perfectly transparent, and colourless. 

 Hyperia galha was found on one or two specimens. 



Beroe ovata, Scliulze's " Coelenteraten " collected by the German North 

 Sea Expedition of 1872 {I.e.) ; and Pearcey, in Trans. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Glasg., n.s., vi. pt. 2, 1902, p. 228. 



Idyia ovata, Leslie & Herdman's Catalogue. 



Berot cucumis, J. Arthur Thomson in Pollock's ' ^ Dictionary of the Forth, 

 1891, p. 156 ; and Evans {I.e.). 



This common species was present in Dunbar Harbour on 



1 Proc. Roy. Soc. Udin., xxv., p. 785, 1905. 



"Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Dec. 1888, p. 464, and Jany. 1890, p. 46 j 

 also 7th (1888) Rept. Fish. Bd, Scotl., 1889, p. 273. 



matter to get uninjured ex- 

 amples into our jars, where at 

 best their life was of short 

 duration. Of a dozen brought 

 home alive none survived the 

 night. In the dark they emitted 

 a pale phosphorescent light 

 when the jar containing them 

 was suddenly shaken or struck. 

 The accompanying figure, 

 drawn from a Dunbar example, 

 represents the creature broad- 

 side on, i.e., viewed in the 

 transverse plane. Being in the 

 form of a laterally flattened 

 cone, the outline is much nar- 



from life. 



plane, i.e., at right angles to 



Beroe cucumis, Fab. 



