. Whydr Xf- Tovr Text-fig. 76. Abyla schmidti. A, B, C, D, different views of a detached anterior nectophore from 'Discovery II' St. 1588 250-100 m., x 5-5. Note the slight asymmetry characteristic of all such nectophores; E, F, G, three views of distal end of a posterior nectophore from 'Discovery II' St. 1587. For comparison with the new Indian Ocean species of Abyla schmidti I give figures of the following: (1) type specimens of A. trigona Q. & G., kindly lent by the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (PL XII); (2) type specimens of A. carina Haeckel (Text-fig. 75 B); (3)
. Whydr Xf- Tovr Text-fig. 76. Abyla schmidti. A, B, C, D, different views of a detached anterior nectophore from 'Discovery II' St. 1588 250-100 m., x 5-5. Note the slight asymmetry characteristic of all such nectophores; E, F, G, three views of distal end of a posterior nectophore from 'Discovery II' St. 1587. For comparison with the new Indian Ocean species of Abyla schmidti I give figures of the following: (1) type specimens of A. trigona Q. & G., kindly lent by the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (PL XII); (2) type specimens of A. carina Haeckel (Text-fig. 75 B); (3) a specimen of A. trigona from ' Discovery II' Station 2067 (Text-fig. 75 A), all these three from the Canaries region of the Atlantic; (4) a specimen of a related species A. tottoni Sears from 'Discovery II' Station 1178 in the eastern South Atlantic (Text-fig. 75C); (5) another related but unnamed new species from 'Discovery II' Stations 709 and 711 in the western South Atlantic (Text-fig. 74). Dr Sears states that both Quoy and Gaimard and Haeckel were confusing two (the same two) species in their accounts of A. trigona and A. carina. Her argument is that (1) Quoy and Gaimard's type anterior nectophores were too small to have been linked to the type posterior nectophores, which probably do not belong to them, (2) Quoy and Gaimard's type anterior nectophores resemble (a) some
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