48 Mr. P. H. Gosse on some new British Sea- Anemones, 



living Fusm antiquus ; far exceeding the column, and clasping 

 the shell. 



Column : skin delicate, much corrugated transversely ; below 

 the margin a horizontal row of large well-defined warts, about 

 ten in number ; summit very much corrugated, and falling into 

 radiating folds in incipient retractation. A slight but distinct 

 margin. 



Disk slightly concave ; outline almost circular. 



Tentacles arranged in two or three rows, rather long, sub- 

 equal, but the inner row somewhat longer than the outer ; when 

 fully expanded, curving over the margin. 



Mouth not raised on a cone, slightly corrugated. 



Colour. Column white. 



Disk white, streaked with very light brown. 



Tentacles dark reddish purple, without any markings. 



Mouth : lip slightly yellow. 



Size. Diameter two inches; height two inches. 



Locality. Moray Firth, off Macdufi^, Banff; from deep water. 



For this magnificent species I am indebted to the kindness of 

 the Rev. Walter Gregor, who forwarded it to me. It was dead, 

 however, when it reached me; but his own careful notes and 

 sketches, made while it was alive, have enabled me, in combina- 

 tion with my own imperfect observations, to characterize it as 

 above. 



The genus is an aberrant one in the family Bunodidse, ap- 

 proaching the Sagartiadse through Adamsia and S. parasiticay 

 with both of which it has obvious relations. 



The specific name is given, at Mr. Gregorys request, in honour 

 of an esteemed friend. 



Genus Stomphia (mihi). 



Base adherent, expanded. 



Column pillar-like, without warts or suckers, imperforate (?) ; 

 skin much corrugated; substance not at all cartilaginous, but 

 soft and lax. Disk very protrusile. Tentacles perfectly retrac- 

 tile. Acontia not present. 



Name from o-to//,<^o9, wide-mouthed. 



Sp. 3. Stomphia Churchics (mihi). SpEcinc character. 

 Body dashed with scarlet on white or yellow ; tentacles white, 

 with scarlet bands. 



General Description, — Form. Base adherent to rocks in deep 

 water, expansile considerably beyond the column, 



Column very protean in shape, generally a short thick pillar, 

 sometimes constricted hour-glass fashion or like a dice-box; the 

 base sometimes detaches itself, and becomes very concave with 



