240 ANTIIOZOA HELIAXTnOIDA. 



31, Anthea,* Johnston. 



Chakacteb. — Body cylindraceous^ adhering hy a broad base ; 

 tentacula disposed in circles round the mouthy elongated^ tapered^ 

 and incapable of being retracted within the body. 



1. A. cEREVs, body someivhat cylindrical^ furro^ved length- 

 imys ; tentacula numerous^ longer than the body, smooth. 

 Gsertner. 



Plate XLIV. 



Urtica cinerea, Rondel. Poiss. 381. — Hydra tentaculis denudatis, numerossimis ; 

 corpore longitiidinaliter sulcato, Gartner in Phil. Trans. Hi. 78, tab. 1, fig. 1. 

 Phil. Trans, abridg. xi. 52G. — Actinia Cereus, Ellis and ,So^/?i(/. Zooph. 2. Turt. 

 Gmel. iv. 103. Turl. Brit. Faun. 131. Rajip Polyp. 56. tab. 2, fig. 3. Grule 

 Actin. 11. — Act. sulcata. Pen. Brit. Zool. iv. 102. Berk. Syn. i. 18G. Stew. 

 Elem. i. 394. Flem. Brit. Anim. 498. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. iii. 69. Enc3-clop. 

 Method. Vers, pi. 73, fig. 1, 2. Bosc Vers, ii. 257. — Hj-dra Cereus, Steiv. Elem, 

 ii. 451. — Anthea Cereus, Johns. Brit. Zooph. 221. W. Thompson in Ann. and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. vii. 481. Hassall in ibid. vii. 286. Couch Zooph. Corn. 34 : 

 Corn. Faun. iii. 81, pi. 14, fig. 2. 



Hah. " Very frequent upon the sea-coasts" of Cornwall, Gcertner. 

 Anglesea, Pennant. Torquay, D)\ Coldstream. Isle of Wight, com- 

 mon, W. Thomjyson. " The three varieties of this species, described by 

 Gsertner, are found in Sandy Cove, near Dublin ; the green one but 

 sparingly. They usually adhere to Fuci, generally to Fuciis ser^'otus, 

 and but rarely to stones. Below low- water mark." A. H. Hassall. 

 "In September, 1835, I made a note of this species as being the 

 most common Actinia at Ballyhome Bay, co. Down, where it was 

 gregarious, forming in some places a continuous fringe round large 

 rock-pools and stones, exposed to view at low water. In such quan- 

 tity it is not now to be seen there, having become gradually scarcer 

 since the period mentioned. In Dublin Bay and on the western 

 coast this species likewise prevails. It is commonly of a dull ash- 

 colour throughout, but wherever I have remarked it, some few indi- 



* From avlo; — a flower: the name borrowed from Drayton — 

 '•'^Anthea, of the flowers, that hath the general charge, 

 And Syrinx of the weeds, that grow upon the marge." 

 Since the name was published, I have learned that Anihia had been previouslj' used 

 for a genus of coleopterous insects, but the similarity between the words will scarcely 

 justify a change in either. Risso's genus A7ici)io?na appears to have been intended 

 to embrace the same species as the Anthea, but if so, it is ill defined ; and being 

 formed merely by a misspelling of the old name Anemone, ought to be rejected from 

 our nomenclature. 



