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ANTHOZOA HELIANTHOIDA. 



15. A. MONiLE, " tmth a cylindrical hody of a ligJd cinereous 

 green, marked with from 14 to 16 Imes of lead-like tuhercles ; 

 the circumference of the disc is also striated, and with a single 

 range of variegated tentacular J. Templeton. 



Actinia monile, Templeton in Loud. Mag. N. Hist. ix. 303, fig. 49. 



Fig. 51. 



Hah. — '•' Rare : a few specimens were found on the shore of 

 Belfast Lough, near Holy wood, April, 1803," J. Teynj^leton. 



" They were, when contracted, scarcely larger than a pea, and had 

 only ten tentacula. Perhaps the young of a larger species." J. 

 Templeton. 



16. A. coRiACEA, hody conoid, orange- coloured, hlotched, 

 rough iciiJi large perforated warts ; tevitacula 7iumerous, in 

 three or four series, shorter than the diameter of the disc, thick, 

 annulated, with coloured rings ; rim of the oral disc circular 

 and even. 



Plate XXXIX. Fig. 1, 2. 



L'Actinie coriace, Cuv. Reg. Anim. iii. 291. — Actinia coriacea, Rapp Polyp. 51. 

 tab. I, fig. 3, 4. Teale in Trans. Leeds See. i. 91, pi. 9, 10, and 11. — Act. 

 senilis, Fleni. Brit. Anim. 498. — Act, gemmacea, var. (i. Joints. Brit. Zoopli. 213, 

 pi. 27. Couch Corn. Faun. iii. 76. — Cribrina coriacea, Ehrenb. Corall. 40. — Act. 

 digitata? Mull. Zool. Dan. iv. 16, tab. 133. 



Hah. — Between tide-marks, buried in crevices of rocks and in 

 sand, common. " Generally located in a sandy situation in crevices 

 between shelving rocks, or under a projecting portion of rock in a 

 sheltered situation with a sandy bottom," W. /*. Cocks. 



Body conoid or semi-globose, with a circular base about two 

 inches in diameter, variously coloured, usually dull red, blotched with 

 green ; skin opake and coriaceous, covered with numerous pale sub- 

 diaphanous warts, often so close together that they appear irregular, 



