Medusae of the world . 1. Eutima elephas, mature female medusa. Figure 1, marginallithocyst; figure 1, part of one of the gonads on the , Florida, May 31, 1906. Fig. 2. Phortis lactea, male medusa. Tortugas, Florida, May 28, not colored. Figs. 3 to 3. Eutima mini. Figure 3, lithocyst. Tortugas, Florida, June10, 1897. Drawn from life, by the author. LEITOMHDUSjE—EUT1MA. 301 Eutima levuka. Eutimcta levuka, Agassiz, A., and Mayer, 1899, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. at Harvard College, vol. 32, p. 163, plate 9, , 31.—Bigelow, H. B., 1909, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. at Har


Medusae of the world . 1. Eutima elephas, mature female medusa. Figure 1, marginallithocyst; figure 1, part of one of the gonads on the , Florida, May 31, 1906. Fig. 2. Phortis lactea, male medusa. Tortugas, Florida, May 28, not colored. Figs. 3 to 3. Eutima mini. Figure 3, lithocyst. Tortugas, Florida, June10, 1897. Drawn from life, by the author. LEITOMHDUSjE—EUT1MA. 301 Eutima levuka. Eutimcta levuka, Agassiz, A., and Mayer, 1899, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. at Harvard College, vol. 32, p. 163, plate 9, , 31.—Bigelow, H. B., 1909, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. at Harvard College, vol. 37, p. 165, plates 5 and 35. Bell thin, flatter than a hemisphere, 8 mm. in diameter. 8 well-developed hollow ten-tacles, 4 about as long as diameter of bell, 4 others only about half this length. Small lateralcirri are found upon the sides of these tentacles. Besides the large tentacles described, thereare 24 small papillae upon the bell-margin, flanked by lateral cirri exactly as are the large.


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