Pul) 
■mo. 
“^ORMS. MOLLUSCA. 49. Medufa. 
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Body thin, convex, and terminating in a 
above, blue with a brown border : crfli a-parted and ftriat . 
tentacula filitbrm. 
Hemifphxrkal-concave, with a fringed border beneaA 
ftriate, the ifem with 4 openings and 8 artns. 
S/miv ^iatur. Mi/cel. viii. tal). 299* 
Maori chsero) del polm. mar. nap. I77®’ 
Inhabits the fea. , ,, _:r 
Body gelatinous, pellucid, tough, cryftalhnc : head large, hemttf 
phrerical, concave beneath, and marked wim numerous Itri^ 
croff d by \6 diltant ligatn.cnts, each eniitting ? branch 
both fides: border fringed with numcrous roundilh blue Icalr 
lops r Jiem large, thick, fquare, with 4 lemioval openings, each 
of which has i large looe above apd a fiiialler beneath. 
hravehes Or arm' proceeding from the lower part of the Item », 
fubeylinaric, pendent and wrinkled behind; befide» theie are 
j 6 fhbtrigonal appendages, bi^d in front, and terminated on 
die upper fide by a fiat wrinkled furface; they arife trorn the 
beginning of each branch : the branches end in as many large 
fubpyramidical ti.eir 2 exterior fides prominent and 
ending in a thickly wrinkled furface : thefc are terminated by 
8 oblong fubtriangular thick pendent bodies, ending in 3 nat 
acute membran icepus pieces. Within the openings is a fle.x-: 
nous ftriate blueiih-yellow band. 
^drrhena. Convex ; the margin crenate, and fiirnifhed with ver) long 
fibres or threads : beneath are 4 tentaciila. 
Inhabits Tujean fen. Maori, obf. del palm, moir p. 1 9. 
Body fnooth, tender, hyaline fpotted with red j beneath are 4 
cavities, each nrjarked with a red band. 
pjfj, . the margin 8-times dividet} and flriatc, 
beneath: tubercles 8. 
Inhabits TWias fca. Mao^Lobf p-zo, , ,, •l 
jBoA hyaline, about 2 pounds weight; beneath fulvous, with 
innumerable curved fibres : blueifh-white, ending in 
2 fteins terminated by a pellucid whitifh membrane, which ?s 
flaccid and blue cw white at the tip. 
Bottle- (haped, with a vepy long granular central tentaeulhiH 
beneath: margin with numerous blye teutacula tipt 
with white. 
^ourn. de BhyJ. nov. p. 3^5’ 2, Jig. ^3, t4* _ _ 
inhabits the Ocean. Hyaline, with about 30 marginal cirri. 
Ceircaaellq. 
