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rynx it is noticeable that as a rule it increases to a certain degree simultaneously with the growth of the spec- 

 imens. A smaller specimen has thus smaller nematocysts than a larger specimen, but the proportion between 

 the size of the nematocysts in the tentacles and that of the nematocysts in the actinophar>'nx is retained, 

 as the following tables clearly show. 



Urticina felina coriacea & tuberculata. 



Priaptis felinus, Linne 1761 p. 510. 



Actinia felina L., Linne 1766 — 68 p. 1088. 



Tealia felina I,., Fischer 1875 p. 1207/7). 



Urticina felina {!,■), Haddon i88g p. 298. 



Actinia coriacea Cuv., Rapp 1829 p. 51 PI. i figs. 3, 4, Sars 1835 p. 3 Danielsen & Koren 1856 p. 87. 



Cribrina coriacea Cuv., Ehrenberg 1834 p. 40. 



Cereus coriaceus Milne-Edwards 1857 p. 264. 



Tealia coriacea (Cuv.), Carlgren 1902 p. 43, Walton 1908 p. 219. 



Actinia {Isacmaea) papulosa. Urticina papulosa Ehrenberg 1834 P- 33- 



Cereus papillosus Milne-Edwards 1857 p. 264. 



Actinia tuberculata n. sp.. Cocks 1851. 



Tealia tuberculata Cocks, Gosse i860 p. 217, Cunningham 1890 p. 205 PI. 19. 



Actinia crassicornis Miill., Gosse 1853 p. 74, {Cribrina v. Tealia) Liitken 1861 p. 191. Mobius 1873 p 100. 

 lycnz 1882 p. 171. 



Bunodes crassicornis (Miill.), Gosse 1855 p. 294, Meyer & Mobius 1862 p. 231, 1863 p. 174. 



Tealia crassicornis (Miill.), Gosse 1858 p. 417, i860 p. 209 PI. 4 fig. i. O. & R. Hertwig 1879 PI. 2 figs. 2, 

 6, 7, 9, 12, Andres 1883 p. 415 fig. 24, Mobius 1883 p. 12, G. Y. & A. F. Dixon 

 1889 p. 320 PI. 5 fig. 5, Leviusen 1893 p. 395, Mortensen 1897 p. 316, Grieg 1898 

 p. 6, Blegvad in Petersen 1914 p. 43. 



Urticina crassicornis Ehr.! Verrill 1869 p. 469 (p. p.), (Miill.) Carlgren 1S93 PI. i fig. 20 textfigs. 9 — 13 

 (p. p.), Appellof 1905 p. 83, 86, (Ehr.) Pax 1920 p. 7 figs. 3 — 6. ?(Miill.) Ehr. Mc. 

 Murrich 1901 p. 28 fig. 2 PI. i fig. 6. 



PRhodactinia davisii Agas. Verrill 1864 p. 18 (p.p.). 



Tealia grenii n. sp. Wright-Perceval 1859 p. 122. 



Actinia holsatica n. sp. Mtiller 1806 p. 23 PI. 139. 



Compare further Andres 1883 and Carlgren 1893. 

 Diagnosis: Compare above. 

 Colour of coriacea verj^ variable. Column now crimson, now with green streaks and crimson flakes, 



now ochreous-coloured or olive-brown, now grayish. Warts gray or bluish-gray. The main colour of the 



tentacles is white or gray, shading off into bluish-gray or pale crimson. An opaque white band across the 



base of the tentacles and a broad crimson-coloured band in the middle, below and sometimes above outlined 



by a narrower band of opaque white colour. Sometimes these bands are indistinct. Oral disc grayish or 



