46 Mr. P. H. Grosse on some neiv British Sea- Anemones. 



3. P. laviffaius, D'Orb. 



Hyalaea laevigata, D'Orb. 

 Diacria laevigata, Gray. 



Hab. Indian Ocean. Rare; one specimen. 



I have captured all these species in a towing-net made in 

 various forms and of different materials, — a bread-bag with a 

 bunting tongue or cod being about the best. They are most 

 numerous in fine weather, and seem to come near the surface 

 during the night, and especially towards the evening. I have 

 not succeeded, however, in making out the exact hours of their 

 appearance near the surface, as M. D'Orbigny appears to have 

 done, my captures having occurred at different and irregular 

 intervals. 



I am, Gentlemen, 

 Yours &c., 



Arthur Adams. 



VII. — Characters and Descriptions of some new British Sea- 

 Anemones. By Philip H. Gosse, F.R.S. 



Fam. Sagartiadae. 



Genus Phellia. 



Sp. 1. Phellia Bi^odricii (mihi). Specific character. Epi- 

 dermis free at the margin, dense, transversely corrugated. Ten- 

 tacles marked with a latticed pattern. 



General Description. — Form. Base adherent to rocks ; con- 

 siderably exceeding the column. 



Column abjectly flat when completely contracted, and rough- 

 ened with strong concentric wrinkles ; rising to a tall, somewhat 

 slender pillar, studded with low warts on its upper portion, 

 but covered on its lower two-thirds with a tough, firmly adherent 

 epidermis, the upper edge of which is free, with a ragged folia- 

 ceous margin, not forming a tube. The surface of this is trans- 

 versely corrugated, but not warted. The animal frequently 

 expands in its low condition, when the flower occupies the sum- 

 mit of a very low cone, and is not half the diameter of the base. 

 Mr. Brodrick informs me, however, that the appearance and size 

 of the flower have degenerated in captivity, and that its expanse 

 was fully an inch in diameter at first. A slight margin, much 

 wrinkled in semi-contraction, and forming a star of radiating 

 furrows in closing. 



Disk flat or slightly concave ; outline circular. 



Tentacles arranged in five rows, viz. 6, 6, 12, 24, 48 = 96; 



