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CEPHEAN MEDUSA. 
Generic Character. 
Body gelatinous, orbicular, commonly depreiled. | 
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Specific Character, &c. 
HEM ISPI lERIC - DEPRESSED REDDISH - 
BROWN MEDUSA; furnilbed with eight 
arms, villous at their extremities, and with 
nine very long filiform tentacula. 
This is one of the larger Mediifse: it is extremely 
pellucid, of a gelatinous coniiftencc, and of a pale 
.reddilh-brown color, tinged in fome parts with a 
darker hue, approaching nearly to blueilh. It is 
not uncommon towai'ds the coafts of the Red Sea. 
