ACTINIAD^ : ADAMSIA. 

 29. Adamsia,* E. Forbes. 



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Character. — " Body expanded^ hilohed, adhering hy a hroad 

 base : tentacula subretraetile, simple, surrounding the mouth.'''' 

 Forbes. 



1. A. PALLiATA. J. Adams. 



Plate XLII. Fig. 1, 2. 



Medusa palliata, Bohad. Anim. Mar. 135, tab. 11, fig. 1. — Actinia maculata, Adams 

 in Lin. Trans, v. 8. Coldstream in Edin. New Phil. Journ. ix. 236, tab. 4, fig. 

 6, 7 ; and in Edin. Journ. Nat. and Geogr. Sc. iii. 49. Forbes in Ann. Nat. Hist, 

 iii. 48. IT'. Thompson in ibid. v. 251. Hassall in ibid. vii. 286. — Act. carcinio- 

 pados. Otto in Nov. Act. Acad. C. L. C. Nat. Cur. xi. 288, pi. 40. D. Chiaie 

 Anim. s. Vert. Nap. ii. 242. Rapp, PoIjt). 58. Gruhe Actin. 13.— Cribrina 

 palliata, Ehrenh. Corall. 41 ; and Lam. Anim. s. Vert. 2de edit. iii. 426. — Actinia 

 picta, Risso I'Europ. merid. v. 286. — Act. effaeta. Turt. Gmel. iv. 101. TuH. 

 Brit. Faun. 131. — Parasite Actinia, Landshorough in Scottish Christian Herald, ii. 

 333. — Adamsia maculata, ivories in Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 183. 



Hah. Milford Haven, surrounding the apertures of deserted shells 

 of the Murex despectus, Adams. Torbay, and in Rothesay and 

 Karnes Bays in Bute, either thrown ashore after easterly gales, or 

 drawn in by flounder-nets, Dr. Coldstream. Stevenston, Ayrshire, 

 Rev. D. Landshorough. On the coast of the Isle of Man, " where 

 it is extremely common on old Fusi and Trochi in deep water," 

 E. Forhes. " This extremely beautiful species, taken by dredging 

 in Strangford Lough, in January, 1835, by Mr. Hyndman and my- 

 self, has subsequently occurred to us commonly there and in Belfast 



Fig. 44. 



* " I have named the genus Adamsia, after Mr. Adams, who first noticed it, and 

 who contributed largely to tlie British Fauna in an age less favourable to natural 

 history than the present." E. Forhes — His Christian name was John. In two papers 

 published in the "Linnsean Transactions," he has described several new shells, and 

 some other invertebrate animals, found on the coast of Pembrokeshire. 



