Medusae of the world . thocysts ( ?) (See text-figure 245.) Possibly a variety of H. papillosum ? but more probably identical with H. rotundatum. TRACHYMKDUS/E—HALICREAS. 393 Halicreas racovitzae. Homaonema racovitzx, Maas, 1906, Fauna Arctica, Bd. 4, Lfg. 3, p. 520.—Bigelow, H. B., 1909,Mem. Museum Comp. Zool. at Harvard College, vol. 37, p. 144. -Homa-onema (Haliscera) racovitztr, Maas, 1906, Exped. Antarctique, S. Y. Belgica, Medusen, p. 10, taf. 1, fign. 3, 4; taf. 2, fig. 13. Bell nearly hemispherical, being about 8 mm. wide and mm. high; with moderatelythick, gelatinous walls. 48 lar


Medusae of the world . thocysts ( ?) (See text-figure 245.) Possibly a variety of H. papillosum ? but more probably identical with H. rotundatum. TRACHYMKDUS/E—HALICREAS. 393 Halicreas racovitzae. Homaonema racovitzx, Maas, 1906, Fauna Arctica, Bd. 4, Lfg. 3, p. 520.—Bigelow, H. B., 1909,Mem. Museum Comp. Zool. at Harvard College, vol. 37, p. 144. -Homa-onema (Haliscera) racovitztr, Maas, 1906, Exped. Antarctique, S. Y. Belgica, Medusen, p. 10, taf. 1, fign. 3, 4; taf. 2, fig. 13. Bell nearly hemispherical, being about 8 mm. wide and mm. high; with moderatelythick, gelatinous walls. 48 large tentacles, most of which were broken off short in Maassspecimens, but were complete in Bigelows and resemble those of H. papillosum; these aresomewhat irregularly arranged, but all ot the same size and of similar structure. There areabout 8 lithocyst-clubs, irregularly spaced, some octants being without them and others hav-ing 2 clubs which arise from the bell-margin between the tentacles. Velum very wide, being.


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