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described a form which he had collected at the mouth of Gaspé Basin, 
suggesting its identity with Stimpson’s species, but proposing for it, if it 
should prove distinct, the name Actinia nitida. There can be little doubt 
as to its identity with Stimpson’s A. carneola, and this same species 
was described by Verrill (1864), as the young of L. Agassiz’ Rhodactinia 
Davisiit. In 1899, however, Verrill corrected the error into which he 
had fallen, recognizing the distinctness of the species from Rhodactinta, 
and at the same time noting that there was little doubt but that it 
was identical with the form described by Gosse (1859, 1860), as Stom- 
phia Churchiæ. This form had been thoroughly described by Carlgren 
(1893), and identified by him (p. 138) with O. F. Müller’s (1776), 
Actinia coccinea, with which he also identified (1902), after a personal 
examination, Sagartia repens, Tealiopsis polaris and Kylindrosactis 
elegans of Danielssen (1890). 
I have been able to examine examples of the species from Eastport, 
Me., and from St. Andrews, and have no doubt as to the correctness 
of its identification with the S. Churchie described by Carlgren. The 
identification of that form with Müller’s coccinea seems also to be well 
founded and the correct name for the species is, therefore, Stomphia 
coccinea (O.F.M.) Carlgren. 
The individuals captured at St. Andrews were all taken by the 
dredge in about 10 or 12 fathoms. I found none between tide marks. 
None of them reached the size given by Verrill and Carlgren, the largest 
having a height of only 1.5 cm. with a diameter at the base of 3.0 em; 
the length of the tentacles was about 1.2 em. The species is so variable 
in form, however, that measurements of the column can be of only 
moderate value. 
In their general appearance the forms obtained at St. Andrews 
resembled not a little smaller examples of Urticina felina and might 
readily be mistaken for them. The column had a cream white ground 
which was irregularly marked with carmine so that it had as a whole a 
distinct reddish or scarlet tone. The carmine was lacking toward the 
margin, so that there was a distinct cream white capitular zone. The 
tentacles were translucent and marked by two circular bands of orange 
red, and their tips were of the same colour. The disk was of a pale 
orange red colour, deepening in tone at the peristome and at the bases of 
each of the tentacles of the inner cycles there was an opaque white spot. 
The base was in all cases expanded, but the column, though cylin- 
drical in form, is subject to much variation in height and diameter. It 
was smooth and the moderately thick mesogloea of its wall was almost 
homogenous in structure. The mesoglceal sphincter in the forms 
examined agreed in structure with that figured by Carlgren, and, as that 
author has also noted, the longitudinal musculature of the tentacles and 
