ASTR.EACEA. BVNODIDJE. 



THE DEEPLET. 



Bolocera Tuedice. 



Plate V. fig. 1 . 

 Specific Character. Body dull red ; tentacles chestnut. 



Actinia Tuedice. Johnston, Mag. Nat. Hist. v. 163 ; fig. 58. 



Anthea Tuedice. Ibid., Brit. Zooph. Ed. 2. ; i. 242, fig. 53. Landsborough, 



Scott. Chr. Her. 1840, 243. Cocks, Rep. Comw. Pol. 



Soc. 1851, 11 ; pi. ii. fig. 33. Gosse, Ann. N. H. ; 



Ser. 3. i. 416. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. . 

 Form. 



Base. Adherent, scarcely exceeding the column. 



Column. Cylindrical, smooth and as if polished on the general surface, 

 but studded, somewhat sparsely, with minute rounded warts, which are 

 scarcely apparent when the animal is extended, but, on contraction, " re- 

 semble the heads of small pins in a pincushion" ( W. P. C.) ; in this condi- 

 tion the smooth surface is thrown into transverse wrinkles. Substance 

 firm and sub-cartilaginous. 



Disk. Flat, smooth, without conspicuous radii; outline circular, not 

 exceeding the column. 



Tentacles. Numerous, in three rows, close-set ; the innermost remote 

 from the mouth, sometimes two inches in length, and half an inch in 

 diameter ; the other rows diminishing in gradation ; stout, constricted at 

 the foot, then swollen, and tapering to an obtuse point, which is perforate ; 

 marked with longitudinal sulci, which are obliterated when the tentacle is 

 completely distended ; very flexuous and motile ; readily detached, and 

 retaining their irritability and worm-like motions long after the separation. 

 They cannot be retracted within the column, nor are they capable of any 

 considerable elongation or contraction. 



Mouth. Not raised on a cone. Lip apparently not thickened. Stoma|ch- 

 wall capable of being protruded in the form of great bladder-like lobes. 



Colour. 



Column. An uniform deep flesh-colour, reddish, or brownish-orange. 

 Bisk. A lighter tinge of the same. 

 Tentacles. Chestnut or reddish flesh-colour. 

 Stomach. When protruded, reddish with paler lines. 



