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y. Iioseoidcs. Column orange-brown; disk pale yellowish-grey; ten- 

 tacles rose-coloured, with the proper markings ; and the outer row either 

 wholly or partially scarlet-cored. Dartmouth, Plymouth. This is exceed- 

 ing!}' like S. rosea. (See the article on that species.) 



5. Niveoides* Column drab-olive. All the tentacles opaque white, except 

 five groups sub-symmetrically arranged, each group comprising a few 

 tentacles of a pale orange-buff hue. A single specimen in the possession 

 of Mr. G. H. King, of Torquay, obtained by him in the vicinity. 



e. Coccinea. Column deep pellucid crimson : tentacles crimson. This 

 approaches a common state of A. mcscmlryanthcmum in its appearance and 

 colouring : its suckers, however, will in a moment distinguish it on exa- 

 mination, and the usual row of orange-cored tentacles determines its true 

 character. (Plate ii. fig. 2.) 



f Brunnea. Column umber- or even bistre-brown, with pale suckers : 

 tentacles with the characteristic bars much disguised, and almost lost in a 

 general cloud of dusky black occupying the lower half of the tentacle : 

 this is divided by a narrow whitish band from the terminal half, which 

 is pellucid umber. The tentacles are unusually long. Those of the outer 

 row are not all scarlet, some being white; all, however, have the cored 

 appearance. Torquay. 



It may suffice to particularise these varieties, but spe- 

 cimens are frequently found combining the characters of 

 several, and running into one another by imperceptible 

 gradations. I obtained a very young individual at Wey- 

 mouth, which I assign to this species, in which the ten- 

 tacles of all the four rows were cored with the richest 

 orange. 



I first became acquainted with this very fine species 

 in the summer of 1853, at Weymouth, where I found 

 several specimens adhering to the shells of oysters and 

 pectens, brought to market by the trawlers. Since that 

 time I have met with it in some abundance in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Tenby, especially on the eroded surface of 

 some dangerous rocks, known as the Woolhouse Hocks, 

 lying about a mile off shore, and exposed only at low 

 water. In the pools and hollows of this reef, open to 



* In these compounds I take the liberty of using the elements " venusta," 

 " rosea," and " nivea," not as Latin adjectives, but as words now having the 

 force of proper names. 



