English: All figures are Cyanea capillata var. fulva. 10 days old. Fig 1', Egg drawn to be same relative size. Scyphostoma with 8 tentacles, drawn in the act of feeding. 1mm hight. Fig. 3. Scyphostoma with 14 tentacles,24 days old. mm hight. Fig. 4. Scyphostoma oral view of a specimen with 10 tentacles. Fig. 5. Young medusa with bell 8 mm wide; showing the exumbrella papillae. There are 3 tentacles in each adradial cluster. Fig. 6. Young medusa with bell 10 mm wide; showing the lips expanded and spread out over the bottom of the aquarium. There are 5 tentacles in each


English: All figures are Cyanea capillata var. fulva. 10 days old. Fig 1', Egg drawn to be same relative size. Scyphostoma with 8 tentacles, drawn in the act of feeding. 1mm hight. Fig. 3. Scyphostoma with 14 tentacles,24 days old. mm hight. Fig. 4. Scyphostoma oral view of a specimen with 10 tentacles. Fig. 5. Young medusa with bell 8 mm wide; showing the exumbrella papillae. There are 3 tentacles in each adradial cluster. Fig. 6. Young medusa with bell 10 mm wide; showing the lips expanded and spread out over the bottom of the aquarium. There are 5 tentacles in each adradial cluster. Fig. 7. Marginal sense-organ of the medusa shown in Fig. 6. Drawn from life by the author at Agassiz Laboratory, Newport, Rhode Island, June 8 to July 9, 1895. 25 August 1910 57 Medusae of world-vol03 pl67 Cyanea capillata fulva


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