90 SAGAKTIAD.E. 



Locality. 



The coasts of England and Scotland. Hollows in rocks between tide- 

 marks. 



Varieties. 

 * With characteristic marks on disk and tentacles. 



o. Scolopacina. The condition above described. (Tenby: Torquay.) 

 Plate II. fig. 5. 



fi. Hypoxantha. Disk and tentacles pinkish drab: the latter strongly 

 barred, with the J3 indistinct ; each tentacle full orange. (F. H. "West in 

 litt.) 



y. Badifrons. Disk ground-colour pale umber-brown : tentacles wholly 

 pellucid grey. (F. H. West in litt.) 



5. Alhicomis Disk, ground-colour French -grey ; tentacles wholly opaque 

 white. (F. H. W. in litt.) 



** With characteristic marks on tentacles only. 



e. Nigrifrons. Column greenish drab, duskier towards the summit. 

 Disk uniform blackish-grey; summits of mouth-angles orange-cream- 

 colour. Tentacles pellucid, for the most part marked with an undefined 

 long patch of opaque orange-cream-colour on the lowest third of the front; 

 above this three remote spots of opaque white on the front face. The 

 15 distinct when searched for, but nearly merged in the dark hue of the 

 disk. (Morecambe Bay.) 



£ Fulvicomis. Column drab, blackish at the summit. Disk dull 

 umber ; each radius with an undefined centre of black in the exterior 

 half; the interior third wholly drab, separated by black lines. Lip 

 narrow, orange. Tentacles short, remarkably blunt; numerous, in five 

 rows ; uniform opaque pale orange ; the B strong, and distinct. Between 

 the bases of the tentacles black radial lines are continued on a fawn ground, 

 which becomes orange marginally, with a pretty effect. (Morecambe Bay.) 



7]. Pallidicomis. Column dull grey, blackish above, becoming dull 

 rusty immediately at the summit. Disk dull sepia-brown ; the radii sepa« 

 rated by slender black lines : primary radii with a central white spot 

 broadly margined with black. Tentacles short, very blunt, set in five full 

 rows ; opaque dull cream-white, the front with a line of faint orange, and 

 a broad ill-defined stripe of blackish down each side; each tipped with 

 a round dark spot. The 13 separated into its constituent halves, by a 

 dividing line of whitish. (Morecambe Bay.) Plate I. fig. 3. 



6. Aurora. Agrees with a in column and disk, and in the form and 

 comparative fewness of the tentacles; but the colour of these organs 

 is brilliant orange, with the B rather ill-defined. (Tenby : Torquay ) 

 Plate III. figs. I, 2. 



