A ST TUB A CEA . IL YA NTH ID J?. 



THE CRIMSON PUFFLET. 



Edwardsia cornea. 



Plate VII. Figs. 5, 6 : XII. Fig. 3 (magn.). 



Specific Character. Tentacles twenty-eight, pellucid crimson ; capitulum 

 pellucid flesh -pink. 



Edwarclsia camea. Gosse, Annals N. H. Ser. 2. xviii. 219 ; pi. ix. figs. 

 1—4. Ibid. Ser. 3. i. 418. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Form. 



Column. Generally cylindrical, sub-equal in diameter throughout, worm- 

 like, length to diameter as 10 : 1. Capitulum cylindrical, or slightly barrel- 

 shaped, marked with eight invections and eight semi-invections, like the 

 preceding ; margin tentaculate. Scapus slightly more coriaceous than the 

 other regions, but clothed with a very rough epidermis, so slightly adherent 

 that it frequently forms a partially free tube. Physa thin, membranous, 

 globose, transparent, revealing the septa ; imperforate. 



Disl:. Plane ; radii distinct. 



Tentacles. Twenty-eight, sub-marginal, arranged in three rows, — 8, 8, 

 12 = 28 (perhaps the ultimate number of the third row may be 16); 

 versatile in shape, being sometimes very short and fusiform, at others 

 elongated to thrice the diameter of the disk, tapering and very slender. 

 They generally radiate diagonally, arching outwards. 



Mouth. Set on a low cone; lip furrowed. 



Colour. 



Column. Capitulum translucent, delicately tinted with pink, each in- 

 vection bounded by a fine line of opaque white or brilliant pale yellow, and 

 marked with a longitudinal dash of the same near its foot. The stomach is 

 plainly visible, as a thick axis of rich scarlet. Scapus and physa of the 

 same rose-tinged translucency, but the epidermis of the former is of a 

 brownish-yellow hue. 



Dish. A star of cream-white rays on a translucent ground. 



Tentacles. Lovely pellucid pink, sometimes with alternate bands of less 



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