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I hope from the above diagnosis this species may be recognised, and 

 I believe my friend Mr. Gosse knows of no species exactly like it. 



Thoe {Sagartia) sphyrodeta. {Gosse.) 

 I have to add to the already widely scattered habitats for this species, 

 Parkmore Head, Ventry Bay, in the county of Kerry. It differs very 

 remarkably from the other species of the SagartiadaB by its slight 

 adherence to the rock, never attempting to burrow. I only found six or 

 seven specimens. Like Mr. Gosse, I found it fond of floating on the 

 surface of its prison, the base dilated at the top of the water, the body 

 hanging downwards, and the tentacles widely expanded. I kept two 

 specimens alive in an ounce phial for a week ; then I carried them, 

 apparently in the best of health, from Yentry to Dublin, three days' 

 journey, the agitation of which did not seem to annoy them ; but they 

 very shortly died when I placed them in my aquarium, and I fancied 

 the difference of the salt water might have been the cause of their death. 

 The specimens I found were clinging to the smooth, perpendicular sur- 

 face of a deep rock-pool : they were of various shades of colour, from a 

 transparent white to a light yellow colour. The name Sphyrodeta is 

 very happily chosen. 



Thoe {Sag.) pura. {Alder.) 

 "While shore- collecting from a boat at the western entrance of Bere- 

 haven, county of Cork, and on the Bere Island side, I first found this rare 

 Anemone. It was attached to the expanded root of a small Laminaria, and 

 I was at once struck by the transparent body, with its semi-opaque tentacles 

 conspicuous on the dark ground of the Laminaria. It lived with me for 

 a day or two, having attached itself to the bottom of a temporary aqua- 

 rium. It freely expanded itself. The body appeared quite destitute of 

 suckers, though occasionally I think these made their appearance when 

 the upper portion became opaque. The tentacles were rather thick 

 for their length, the outer row turning downwards, something like the 

 outer row in Corynactis heterocera. This character is not represented, I 

 think, as well in Fig. 6, Plate III., of the " Actin. Brit.'* as if Mr. Gosse 

 had drawn it from a living specimen. In the plate it is too like S. pel- 

 lucida (Holdsworth) — a species which, from the description of it by Mr. 

 Holdsworth, it could never be confounded with. The tentacles consist, 

 I should say, distinctly of two rows, and the edges of the septa are very 

 plainly seen like white lines. The specimen was nearly half an inch 

 high, and expanse nearly three-quarters. It is somewhat strange that 



