ASTRA ACE A. I LY A NTH IDA. 



THE PAINTED PUFFLET. 



Edwardsia callimorpha. 



Plate VII. Fig. 7. 



Specific Character. Tentacles sixteen, transversely dashed with white : 

 capitulum chocolate-brown, painted with white. 



Scolanthus callimorphus. Gosse, Annals N. H. Ser. 2. xii. 157 ; pi. x. 

 Edwardsia callimorpha. Ibid. Linn. Trans, xxi. 271 : Man. Mar. Zool. 



i. 31 ; fig. 45 : Ann. N. H. Ser. 3. i. 418. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 

 Form. 



Column, Nearly cylindrical, slightly enlarging posterioi-ly, worm-like, 

 the length in extension being to the diameter as 10 : 1. Capitulum a 

 short pillar, slightly contracted above and below the middle, and most 

 expanded at the margin ; marked with eight invections, each of which is 

 divided towards the summit into two ; the surface smooth and delicate. 

 Scapus opaque, leathery, rough and minutely corrugated. Physa (not 

 observed). 



J)isk\ Plane ; radii distinct. 



Tentacles. Sixteen, marginal, set apparently in a single row, but yet 

 slightly alternating, corresponding to the invections and semi-invections ; 

 long (nearly thrice the diameter of the disk), slender, slightly tapering, 

 obtusely pointed. They radiate horizontally or diagonally, and are fre- 

 quently intro- or retro-verted. 



Mouth. Set on a prominent cone. 



Colour. 



Column. Capitulum rich chocolate-brown, irregularly dashed with white 

 and black, each invection bearing a conspicuous lozenge-shaped spot of 

 cream-white at its foot, and each semi-invection a triangular spot of white 

 at the summit. These marks are well defined, and their effect is very 

 beautiful. Scapus a deep orange-yellow, somewhat tarnished. 



Disk. White, marked with a star of pointed arches of deep sienna- 

 brown, each arch having a radial stria for its centre, and a circle sur- 

 rounding the mouth for its base. The two gonidial radii dark brown. 



