In Figs. 60 and 61 we have a representation of our little Eucope, one
of the prettiest of the Jelly-fishes belonging to this group; Fig. 57
represents the Hydroid from which it arises; a single branch with the
reproductive bell being magnified in Fig. 58. In Fig. 59 is seen a
portion of the Jelly-fish disk, with the fringe of tentacles highly
magnified. The disk of the Eucope (Fig. 60) looks like a shallow bell,
of which the proboscis often seems to form the handle; for the disk
has such an extraordinary thinness that it turns inside out with the
greatest ease, so that the inner surface may become at any moment the
outer one, with the proboscis projecting from it, as in Fig. 60, while
the next movement of the animal may reverse its whole position, and
the proboscis then hangs down from the inside, as in other
Jelly-fishes. (See Fig. 61.)
[Illustration: Fig. 59. Part of marginal tube and tentacles of
Eucope, greatly magnified; _e_ eye-speck, _b_ base of tentacle.,
_r_ reentering base of tentacle.]
[Illustration: Fig. 60. Young Eucope; magnified.]
[Illustration: Fig. 61. Adult Eucope seen in profile; magnified.]
[Illustration: Fig. 62. Quarter disk of Fig. 60, seen from below;
_e e_ tentacles bearing eye-speck.]
The tentacles are solid and stiff like little hairs, and two of them,
in each quarter-segment of the disk, have small concretions at the
base, which are no doubt eye-specks. (See Fig. 62.) Along the
chymiferous tubes little swellings are developed, which increase
gradually, and become either ovaries or spermaries, according to the
sex of the animal. (Fig. 63.) In the adult the genital organs hang
down, like elongated bags, from the chymiferous tubes. (Fig. 64.) The
tentacles are numerous, multiplying to about a hundred and ninety-two
in the adult, and increasing according to the numerical law to be
explained in the description of the Oceania.
[Illustration: Fig. 63. Quarter-disk of young Eucope, older than
Fig. 62, with a second set of tentacles (2) between the first set
(1).]
[Illustration: Fig. 64. Magnified quarter-disk of adult Eucope.]
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