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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...fign. K, L, M (from the Falkland Islands and Terra del Fuego). Turris rotunda. Dianaa rotunda, Qvoy et Gaimard, 1827, Annal. des Sci. Nat., tome 10, p. 181, plate 6 A, figs. 1, 2. Tiara rotunda, Haeckel, 1879, Syst. der Medusen, p. 57, taf. 3, fign. 9, 10.--Bldot, 1905, Revue Suisse de Zool., tome 13, p. 151 (all literature to 1850). Bell cubical without a pointed apex; 20 mm. high, 20 mm. wide. Bell-cavity only twothirds as deep as the bell-height. 8 tentacles much longer than the bell-height, with conical basal bulbs. A large, dark-red ocellus on the outer side of each tentacle-bulb. Stomach small, swollen, globular, and confined to the upper third of the bell-cavity. The lips are short, much folded, and with a row of nettling warts around their edges. The gonads consist of 4 pairs of longitudinal, swollen areas, each thrown into 8 to 10 cross-foldings, on the adradial sides of the stomach. The stomach, gonads, and tentacle-bulbs are carmine, lips rose-red. Canals yellow. Found by Quoy and Gaimard, and later by Haeckel, in the Straits of Gibraltar. Development unknown. Turris papua Lesson. Turris papua, Lesson, 1843, Hist. Zooph. Acalephes, p. 285; Prodromus, 1837, No. 36.--Etdoux Et Soulevet, 1841, Voyage dc la Bonite, tome 2, p. 639, plate 2, figs. 1-3.--Haeckel, 1879, Syst. der Medusen, p. 58.--Maas, 1905, Craspcdoten Medusen der Siboga Expedition, Monog. 10, p. 14, taf. 2, fig. 13; 1906, Revue Suisse de Zool., tome 14, p. 88.Bedot, 1905, Revue Suisse de Zool., tome 13, p. 150 (all literature to 1850). Mquorea mitra, Lesson, 1829, Voyage de la Coquille, Zool., p. 127, plate 14, fig. 4. ( ') Tiara oceanica, Agassiz, A., and Maver, 1902, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. at Harvard College, vol. 26, p. 141, plate 1, fig. 1. (?) Tiara intermedia, Browne, 1902, Annals...
