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cemented together. These were found on the front beach of 

 Edingsville. 



Prof. McCrady stated that he had recently spent a short time at 

 Bay Point Island, at the mouth of Port Royal Harbor, S. C. 

 Daring this time he had found the following Medusae : 



Among Ctenophora found Bolina littoralis, the same species 

 before mentioned to the Society as common in Charleston 

 Harbor. 



Also a Cydippe larger than the greater number of the Cydippe- 

 like young of Bolina. This large Cydippe is also occasionally 

 found in our own harbor, and may be a mature animal. 



Among Discophora Mr. McCrady had seen a much injured 

 specimen picked up on the beach, which appeared to belong to 

 tfle family of Medusidae proper. It had a four cleft cross-shaped 

 mouth, and the four lobes of the large digestive cavity in the disk 

 were large, elongate and shaped like the broad, rounded am- 

 bulacra of Clypeaster. Round the margins of these cavities were 

 the sexual organs. So much of the periphery of the disk as was 

 left was occupied by numerous radiate tubes. But the whole 

 margin of the disk appeared to have been cut off, since there were 

 no marginal sense-bodies to be found. 



Among the Hydroideahad found Turritopsis nutricula, Dipitrena 

 strangulata, Hippocrene Carolinensis, and a species of Eudendrium 

 which he proposed to call E. repens. It was found growing upon 

 an oyster shell brought up by a fishing line from the bottom of 

 Moss Island creek. The main stem appeared to be creeping, 

 giving off at intervals single branchlets, each of which bore at its 

 extremity a rather large polyp with a single whorl of numerous 

 tentacula. This species was quite different from the Corydendrium 

 of Van Beneden, since it wanted the enlargement beneath the 

 tentacula. 



In the Exostome Sub-order, Mr. McCrady found Eucheilota 

 ventricularis (variety with small oval sexual organs.) Eutima 

 mira, and a specimen probably of Liriope scutigera. Also on the 

 shell with Eudendriun repens, described above, was the Larva of 

 Campanularia noliformis. A free swimming larva of Cunina 

 octonaria through it had but a single sense-capsule to each peri- 

 pheral lobe, yet had the projections of the digestive cavity towards 

 the tentacula less pointed and the outline of this cavity more 

 sinuous than the specimens described in his first paper on this 



