214 Z. HELIANTHOIDA. , Actinia. 



Bosc, Vei-s,ii. 259 A. monile (the young,) Templeton in Mag. Nat. 



Hist. ix. 303, fig. 49. A. Bellis, Rapp, Polyp. 30. tab. 1, fig. 1, 2. 



Var. y3. The body warted, the warts equal, distinct, but scattered without 



order over the surface. Act. senilis, Dicquemare'm Phil. Trans. Ixiii. 



367, tab. 16, fig. 10 ; and tab. 17, fig. 11, 12. Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 105- 



Blumenh. Man. 246. Templeton in Mag. Nat- Hist. ix. 303. A. cori- 



acea, Cuv. Reg. Anim. iii. 291. Rapp, Polyp- 51, tab. 1, fig. 3, 4. Teale 

 in Trans. Leeds Soc. i. 91, pi. 9, 10, U. 



Var. y. Body warted, the warts distant, equal, and sometimes obscure 



Act. equina, Sowerby, Brit. Misc. 7, pi. 4. Turt. Brit. Faun. 130. 



Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 106. A. effoeta? Rapp, Polyp. 34, taf. 2, fig. 



2. Templeton in Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 303. 

 Var. <r. Body quite smooth, irregularly clouded with scarlet, tentacula an- 



nulated with red and white Priapus sive Actinia proboscidibus crassis 



rotundis, Bast. Opusc. Subsec. i. lib. 3. 143, tab. 13, fig. 1 Act. feli- 



na, Lin. Syst. 1088. Barhut, Gen. Verm. 53, tab. 5, fig. 6. Bosc, Vers, 



ii. 255 A. coccinea. Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 231, no. 2792. Zool. 



Dan. tab. 63, fig. 1-3. (young.) Bosc, Vers, ii. 253. Lam. Anim. s. 



Vert. iii. 68. A. crassicornis. Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 231. Adams in 



Lin. Trans, iii. 252. Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 105. Turt. Gmel. iv. 100- 

 Turt. Brit. Faun. L30. Stew- Elem. i. 393. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. iii. 

 67. Stark, Elem ii. 412. Fabric. Faun. Grcenl. 348, no. 341. Jame- 

 son in Wern. Mem. i. 358 A. truncata, Jamesonin Wern. Mem. i. 



538. Pe?in. Brit. Zool. iv. 106. Turt. Gmel. iv. 101. Turt. Brit. 

 Faun. 131. 

 Hab. In crevices of rocks between tide-marks, and on shells, &c. 

 in deep water, very common. 



Body usually rather more than two inches in diameter, hemispheri- 

 cal when contracted, covered with glandular warts, arranged some- 

 times in regular perpendicular lines, sometimes irregularly, and some- 

 times they are scarcely or not at all obvious. The tentacula are dis- 

 posed within the circumference of the oral disk, in 3 or 4 close rows ; 

 they are thick, short, obtuse, somewhat compressed, almost always 

 annulated or variegated with white and red, but when the body is of 

 a uniform pale, flesh, or cream colour, the tentacula are of the same 

 colour and without rings. The animal protrudes from the mouth at 

 pleasure four or five vesicular, pellucid, scored lobes, which vary in 

 size according to their degree of evolution, and often hang over the 

 sides. When kept for a few days in a basin of sea-water, it becomes 

 much larger in all its parts, paler and almost diaphanous ; and the 

 tentacula elongate themselves, swell out, and are distinctly seen to be 

 tubular. These adhere tenaciously to foreign bodies, for their apices 

 act as suckers, and carry prey to the mouth in spite of all its strug- 

 gles. 



This species is liable to great variation in colour and size. The 



