A STR^EA OEA . BUXQDID.E. 



THE RED-SPECKED PIMPLET. 



B anodes Ballii. 



Plate IV. Fig. 4. 

 Specific Character. Warts sub-equal, vertically contiguous, red-spotted. 



Actinia Ballii. Cocks, Rep. Corn. Soc. 1849, 94 ; Ibid. 1851, 9 ; pi. ii. 



figs. 9, 17, 18. 

 clavala. Thompson (w.), Zoologist, 1851, App. cxxvii. Gosse, 



Ann. N. H. Ser. 2, vol. sii. 127. Aquarium, 35. 



Tugwell, Man. Sea Anem. 100, pi. iv. Jordan, Ann. 



N. H. Ser. 2, xv. 88. 

 Bunodes clavala. Gosse, Linn. Trans, xxi. 274. Ann. N. H. Ser. 3, i. 



417. 

 Cereus clavata. Milne Edwards, Hist. Corall. i. 267. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Form. 



Base. Adherent to rocks; considerably exceeding the column; generally 

 lengthened-ovate in outline. 



Column. Low and broad, scarcely rising to a pillar- form. Surface 

 covered with warts about equal in size, arranged in forty-eight longitu- 

 dinal rows, of which the alternate rows are traceable from the margin only 

 about half-way down the column ; the warts are contiguous vertically, but 

 the rows are separated laterally, by interspaces of equal width, of corru- 

 gated skin. The primary rows consist of about twenty four warts, 

 becoming indistinct towards the base; the uppermost individuals of all 

 the rows crowning the margin as blunt teeth. 



Dish. Flat ; the outline nearly circular, often much overlapping the 

 column. Radii distinct ; gonidial radii broad and strongly marked. 



Tentacles. Nearly marginal, set in five rows ; 6, 6, 12, 24, 24 = 72 : the 

 first three rows nearly equidistant from the centre. They are longer and 

 more slender than in gcmmacea, conical, obtuse ; decreasing in size from 

 the first row outwards ; and are usually carried horizontally spread, with 

 a very constant tendency to curl upward at the tips. 



Mouth. Raised on a cone ; often gaping ; throat membranous, protru- 

 sile : gonidial tubercles usually prominent, often inflated. 



Colour. 

 Base. Red, sometimes rich crimson. 



