Medusae of the world . Fig. 168- Plate 41. Fig. 1. Tima formosa, natural size. Newport, Rhode Island, April 20, 1897. (See page 317.)Fig. 2. Tima formosa. Part of the 3. Tima formosa. One of the marginal 4 and 5. Eutima coerulea. Figure 5, part of the bell-margin. Key West, Florida, May, 6. Phortis lactea, mature female. Tortugas, Florida, June, 1898. (See page 308.) v Drawn from life, by the LEPTOMEDUS/E—EUTIMA, EUTIMIUM. 305 close to the stomach. Peduncle well developed, narrow, tapering, and reaching slightlybeyond the velar opening, bein
Medusae of the world . Fig. 168- Plate 41. Fig. 1. Tima formosa, natural size. Newport, Rhode Island, April 20, 1897. (See page 317.)Fig. 2. Tima formosa. Part of the 3. Tima formosa. One of the marginal 4 and 5. Eutima coerulea. Figure 5, part of the bell-margin. Key West, Florida, May, 6. Phortis lactea, mature female. Tortugas, Florida, June, 1898. (See page 308.) v Drawn from life, by the LEPTOMEDUS/E—EUTIMA, EUTIMIUM. 305 close to the stomach. Peduncle well developed, narrow, tapering, and reaching slightlybeyond the velar opening, being about as long as bell-radius. Stomach short, 4 slightly fim-briated lips. The stomach and gonads are opaque white, the tentacle-bulbs green. Commonat the Bahamas and Tortugas in spring and winter months. Hydroid unknown. Eutima pretiosa. Eutimalphes pretiosa, Haeckel, 1879, Syst. der Medusen, p. 195, taf. 11, fig. 8. Bell flatter than a hemisphere, 40 mm. wide. 60 to 80 short, crumpled tentacles, withthick, conical basal bulbs. Numerous cirri; a few marginal warts are scattered between thetentacles. 8 large lithocysts, each with 16 to 20 concretions. Peduncle thick and pyramidal,about as wide as the bell-radius at its base and as long as wide. Stomach large, with 4very large, recurved lips with curtain-like, complexly folded margins. Each lip is about aslong as bell-radius. 4 linear, folded, curtain-like gonads occupying nearly the
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