Medusae of the world . —.EQUOREA. 331 iEquorea albida A. Agassiz. Plate 43, figs. 1-5; plate 44, fig. 5. /Enuona albida, Agassiz, A., 1862, in L. Agassizs Com. Nat. Hist. U. S., vol. 4, p. 359; 1865, North Amer. Acal., p. no, —Haeckel, 1879, Syst. der Medusen, p. 221.—Verrill, 1873, Report Com. Fish and Fisheries U. S., for 1871-72,p. 729. This medusa is, I believe, only a well-marked northern variety of JEquorea forskalea,but it may be distinguished by its color, the entodermal lamella of the bell being a decidedgreen and the tentacle-bulbs often orange with black-col
Medusae of the world . —.EQUOREA. 331 iEquorea albida A. Agassiz. Plate 43, figs. 1-5; plate 44, fig. 5. /Enuona albida, Agassiz, A., 1862, in L. Agassizs Com. Nat. Hist. U. S., vol. 4, p. 359; 1865, North Amer. Acal., p. no, —Haeckel, 1879, Syst. der Medusen, p. 221.—Verrill, 1873, Report Com. Fish and Fisheries U. S., for 1871-72,p. 729. This medusa is, I believe, only a well-marked northern variety of JEquorea forskalea,but it may be distinguished by its color, the entodermal lamella of the bell being a decidedgreen and the tentacle-bulbs often orange with black-colored granules. Such colors are notrecorded in JEquorea forskalea. Bell about 60 mm. wide, somewhat miter-shaped, with flaring sides, slightly higher thana hemisphere. About 300 slender tentacles, longer than bell-diameter and with well-developedbasal bulbs which contain excretion papillae. The lithocysts are about twice as numerous asthe tentacles and each lithocyst contains 2 to 4 spherical concretions. Velum is
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