THE 



FUNNEL MEDUSA. 



Generic Character. 



Body gelatinous, orbicular, in moft fpecies de- 



preffed. 

 Mouth beneath, central. 



Specific Character. 



OVATE MEDUSA with (commonly) nine cili- 

 ated ribs. 



The elegant fpecies of Medufa here reprefented, 

 appears to have been firft obferved by Dr. Patrick 

 Browne, who, in his Hiftory of Jamaica, has defcribed 

 it in the following words : 



" This beautiful creature is of an oval form, ob- 

 tufely octangular, hollow, open at the larger extremity, 

 tranfparent, and of a firm gelatinous confiftence. It 

 contracts and widens with great facility, but is always 

 open and expanded when it fwims or moves. The 

 longitudinal radii are ftrongert at the crown or fmaller 

 extremity, where they rife from a very beautiful oblong 

 ftar, and diminish gradually from thence to the margin: 

 but each of them is furniftied with a lingle feries of 

 ftiort, delicate, ilender appendixes or limbs, that move 



with 



