... Vexus's GIrDLE. Many kinds of jelly-fish are luminous. One of the most beautiful is known as Venus's Girdle. It is a ribbon of trans- Earent jelly, many-coloured in the sunshine, rightly gleaming by night. Its mouth 18 ...

... STING. The physalia, or “Portuguese man-ofwar,” here illustrated, is even more terrible in its offensive phases than the jelly-fish. This beautiful organism consists of a bladder-like “float,” on the under-surface of which are the numerous little beings ...

... its huge mouth wide om, taking in jelly-fish, and anything eise that comes in its way. By and by ¥ closes down the whalebone, or baleen, as it is | called, and forces the water out of its mouth, leaving the jelly-fish and other objects caught in the fringe ...

... = n- e . INOUS JELLY-FISH. found half-way along on one of the edges of the ribbon. ~The creature moves by means »f the little hairs with which it is clothed, and in swimming it assumes the most graceful curves. Strange to say, its larva is shaped like ...

... FISHES. The appetite of a whale is phenomenal. His chief dict’ consists of jellyfish. He has simply to open his mouth and paddie slong leisurely in order to take in jellyfish by the waggon-load. Such is the method adopted by the whalebone whale. The sperm ...

... produced by the disintegration of jellyfish and corals, whose remains are left by the tide in masses on the shore, The embryo, even while in the egg of the beroe—one of the lowest in organization of the meduse or jellyfish—is luminous, We find here a torch ...

... CURIOUS JELLY FISH. Have you ever studied the jellyfish? If you have seen one on the beach at the seaside you have probably looked at it as a thing featureless a 8 its name implies. When you call a man a jellyfish you intend to convey the impression that he ...

... thread with tier tongue and works quite rapidly. One of her specimens ™ & Crazy quilt containing over 300 designs. LIVE ON JELLY-FISH. A singular casa of commensalism (living on or with another) has just been made known by M. Gadeau de Kerville. It concerns ...

... village called Artro Admitted to the doctor’s presence, Wrighton finds him te be & curiously deformed creature, shapeless as a jelly-fish, but with & beautifulty-shaped bead and finely-cut features. Dr. Andreos, aiter reading Sir fieorge’s letter, makes up his ...

... to il—éhvttella. which means “the little club-shaped animal.” It belongs to the same sub-kingdom as the Sea-Anemones and Jelly-fishes, and, like them, has the property of benumbing its prey by means of thread-cells, whence the Germans call all these creatures ...

... village called Artro. Admitted to the doetor’s presence, Wrighton finds him te be a curiously deformed creature, lbl%fl asa jelly-fish, but with a beautifully-shaped head and finely-cut features. Dr. Andreos, after Mniogh‘ George's letter, makes up his mind ...

... yidel{! known. He went by the name of the “Wolf-boy.” ] S A Livive Torrpo. There are six species of the torpedo family of jelly-fish, of which two are sometimes found on the British coast, the commoner of these being Torpedo marmorata. It is darkbrown in ...