Boone, Coelenteraia, Cruises of "Eagle" and "Ara" 1921-28 61 



Technical description : Consult Duerdon, ' ' Report on the Actinia 

 of Porto Rico," p. 332, pi. 2, figs. 2, 3, pi. 4, fig. 14, 1900. 



The "Ara" specimens establish a new locality record in the "West 

 Indies for this exceedingly beautiful anemone. 

 References: Mamillifera pulchella Duchassaing and Michelotti, 



Mem. Reale Acad. Sci. Turin, ser. II, torn. 23, p. 137, pi. IV, 



fig. 4, 1866. 

 Zoanthus pulchellus Duerden, Royal Dublin Soc. Trans., ser. 2, 



vol. VI, p. 341, pi. VII A, fig. 3, pi. XVIII A, figs. 3-4, 1898; 



Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm, vol. XX, part 2, p. 333, pi. 2, figs. 2-3, 



pi. 4, fig. 14, 1900, (with very fine description). 



ACTINARIA. 



Suborder: Actiniina. 



Family: SAGARTIDAE. 



Genus : METRIDIUM Oken. 

 Metridium dianthus (Ellis). 



Plate 22. 



Type: Ellis' type came from the rocks at Hastings, Sussex, Eng- 

 land, and was deposited in the collections of the Royal Society. 



Distribution: This actinian is essentially littoral, seldom being 

 found in more than 25 fms., although there are a few records of its 

 occurrence down to 90 fms. It is shade loving, preferring rock crev- 

 ices, etc., along the shore line. It is circumpolar, being found in 

 European waters southward to England and the Danish coasts. In 

 America it is found on the eastern coast as far south as Long Island 

 Sound and northern New Jersey, but occurs in greatest abundance 

 from Cape Cod, Mass., northward to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It 

 has been recorded from Port Clarence Bay, Alaska. On the American 

 Pacific coast it has been recorded from Sitka; Bering Straits; Vic- 

 toria, B. C. ; Puget Sound and San Francisco. 



Material examined: One large specimen, Bay of Islands, New- 

 foundland, September 3, 1926 ; another, York Harbor, Newfoundland, 

 September 12, 1923. 



Color : Quite variable. The east American species are usually dull 

 yellowish brown, olivaceous, chestnut brown to umber, often splotched 

 or streaked with lighter colors; occasionally it is pale buff, salmon, 

 or flesh color, very rarely orange or brick red. The tentacles are 



