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long, when extended, but they are said to grow to the length of 6 

 inches. They are quite active and can be kept alive for a long time 

 in jars of moist earth. They occurred not only near the shore, but 

 on the uplands where the soil was almost dry. The larger ones, in 

 life, were dark grayish brown or slate-color along the back, but the 

 smaller ones were nearly white. 



ANTHOZOA. 

 ACTINARIA. 



Cerianthus natans V., sp. nov. 



Plate IX. Figure 6. 



Body in extension Avhen swimming, rather long, bulbous or clavate 

 near the base and enlarged rapidly close to the disk. Outer tenta- 

 cles about 38, subequal, tapered, not very long, thin, length usually 

 less than one-half the diameter of the disk ; they appear to form 

 two or three rows. Inner or oral tentacles much smaller and more 

 slender, about 24, apparently forming two series, owing to their 

 alternate positions. 



Color of body orange-brown, tinged with yellow. Outer tentacles 

 reddish brown, crossed by five or six bands of white ; disk yellowish 

 around bases of tentacles with a brown spot in front of the base of 

 each ; central part of disk bluish graj*. Oral tentacles nearly white; 

 mouth yellow, with lines of red running in from between the oral 

 tentacles. 



Length, in life 110 mm ; diameter of column, 10 to 22 mm ; of disk 

 and tentacles, 45 mm , length of outer tentacles, about 10 mm . 



Cony Island, floating free among alga?, March 26, 1901. (A. H. V.) 



This species, when kept in confinement, could swim about actively 

 by expelling water from the pore in the bulbous base. Only one 

 example was taken. The tentacles are much shorter than usual in 

 this group. 



Epicystis osculifera (Lesneur) Yer. 

 Verrill, these Trans., x, p. 556, 1900. 



Plate VII. Figure 1. 



Numerous specimens of this elegant actinian were obtained, some 

 of them of large size. These render it still more probable that this 

 form is distinct from E. crucifera, for it seems to have a character- 

 istic pattern of colors. 



