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Z. HELIANTHOIDA. 



Actinia. 



from the mere will of the creature, which has great powers of con- 

 tractility. This being assumed, we are entitled to say to Oken, who 

 makes one genus of the Dianthus, and another genus of the plumosa, 

 — " Generis falsa est ea fabula vestri." 



Mr Templeton under the name of" A. dianthus ?" describes a 

 species which appears tobe distinct. — "Conic, rounded above, of a green 

 or greenish-yellow colour, with a few scattered warts in longitudinal 

 rows ; disk light blue, often divided into 1 1 lobes ; tentacula numerous, 

 pale, in from 3 to 7 fascicuh, variegated with dark annuli. In the 

 hollows of the rocks at Ballyholm Bay, Bangor." Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 ix. 304. 



6. A. MACULATA, hasc fixed to a thin horny expansion attached 

 to the apertures of various dead shells ; body longitudinally sul- 

 cated, marked ivith purple spots ; tentacula numerous, rather 

 short, arranged in three or four irregular rows. Mr Adams. 



Fig. 32. 



Actinia maculata, Adams in Lin. Trans, v. p. 8. Turt. Gmel. iv. 105. 

 Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 104. Coldstream' in Edin. New Phil. Journ. ix. p. 



2.36. t. 4. f. 6. 7. and in Edin. Journ. Nat and Geog. So. iii. 49 A. 



carciniopados, Otto in Nov. Act. Acad. C. L. C. Nat. Cur. xi. 288. pi. 



40. Parasite Aetinea, Landsborough in Scottish Christian Herald, ii. 



333 A. effoeta, Turt. Brit. Faun. p. 131. Turt. Gmel. iv. 101. 



Hab. 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, 

 Hev. D. Landsborough. 



" This beautiful species is longitudinally sulcated, having the edges 

 of the base crenated : the lower part is an obscure red, and the up- 

 per part is transparent white marked with fine purple spots ; the 

 outer cii'cumference of the aperture has a narrow stripe of pink. 



