
NOTES ON THE CCELENTERATE FAUNA OF 
WOODS HOLE. 
CHARLES W. HARGITT. 
THE following notes upon certain faunal features of the 
coelenterate life of Woods Hole and adjacent waters pertain 
chiefly to the season just past, including records which are 
fairly constant at regular intervals throughout the entire year. 
For certain of them I am indebted to Mr. Vinal Edwards, 
whose painstaking records during many years are matters well 
known to many naturalists. I am also under obligations to 
Mr. George M. Gray and Dr. H. M. Smith for similar favors. 
In addition to notes upon the seasons, habits, etc., brief 
accounts are presented of new forms discovered and of the 
development of one of the Scyphomedusz. 
HyDROMEDUS. 
A New Tubularian Hydroid. — In August, 1900, while cruis- 
ing and dredging in Muskegat Channel off Marthas Vineyard, 
a considerable number of fine specimens of Corymorpha pendula 
Ag. were taken by dredge and trawl, many of which were in fine 
condition, still imbedded in the sand as in normal life. A 
somewhat cursory examination of the specimens showed what 
seemed to be young specimens growing among the filamentous : 
rootlike holdfasts and apparently budding from the base of 
the hydroid, like young polyps, reference to which fact was 
made by the present writer in the recently published synopsis 
of Hydromedusz. In order to determine more definitely the 
apparent anomaly of buds arising from so low among the rhi- 
zoids and below the sandy surface of the substratum, and whether 
they might show signs of later becoming detached, the speci- 
mens were submitted to one of my students, Mr. A. J. May, 
with instructions to determine the range of budding, nature of 
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