... three hundred and fifty small fish in the heart of this mighty jelly when it was vibrating slowly along.” A kindred case of jellyfish used home for fish is dealt with the review of ” Beneath Tropic Seas,” given opposite, Yet another discovery was a fine specimen ...

... in the intestine of a sea-cucumber or a sea-anemone, and the small fishes which shelter among the stinging tentacles of a jelly-fish. In these three examples, also, there is the further puzzle that the fishes do not come to harm. There is a crab (centre ...

... Aurelia, a phosphorescent jelly-fish ; (2) Polynoe, a marine worm covered with scales that glow with a brilliant blue light when the creature is disturbed; shown with proboscis extended for seizing prey ; (3) Cyanea, a jelly-fish, a common cause of luminous ...

... fronted with the gratifying information that most ani- mals are bilaterally symmet- A few of the lesser breeds, such as jellyfishes and sea-anemones, are radially symmetrical, their various parts and organs being arranged on the same plan as the spokes ...

... habit of fishes like the Portuguese mano’-war fish (Nomeus), which is constantly found accompanying that most remarkable jelly-fish known as the Portuguese man-o’-war,” the fish taking shelter among its long tentacles. Since these are armed with most ...

... the fish for the sake of being transported to pastures new without effort ? There is a very remarkable association between jellyfish and young fishes. The umbrellas, or bells, of large jelly - fishes are often used as a harbour of refuge, by young horse-mackerel ...

... their apparently pious attitude while waiting for their victims, and therefore rather a “preying posture”; also with the jellyfish called the “Portuguese man-of-war” ; the surface of the moon and its phases ; vegetable sheep (a member of the daisy family) ...

... its captor. For the hydra’s tentacles and other parts of its body possess “stinging-cells” analogous to those found in jellyfishes. These liberate their darts on the victim and discharge a poison which renders the prey helpless. Thus, even in lower existence ...

... garden-carpets ; it is enlivened by fishes, a sea-monster, that raises its head out of the water, and other sea-creatures of jelly-fish or polypus type. . . . This representation of the water with fishes and sea-monsters is traditional. It is found far back ...

... sequence. We feel that if Mr. Ward had left the magazines alone he would have given us a still better book. As things are, jellyfish and a piece of coal take their place rather awkwardly between hover fly, a brimstone butterfly, and a lime hawk moth. They ...

... origin to other jelly-fishes like itself, no intervening stage in the way of any zoophyte stock being represented. This is the case, of course, with all true jelly-fishes, although, many of my readers must be aware, there are many jelly-fishes found around ...

... way, in a sense, in spite of gravitation and every other law or condition THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, May 11, 1912.—728 JELLYFISH (CYANEA CAPILLATA). unreasonable supposition—why was the ordinary course pursued ? No exigencies of millionaire life could ...