226 ACTINI/E COLLECTED IN THE NORTH SEA. 



Length when living, 60 mm. In spirit, 27 mm. 



Column cylindrical, tapering gradually posteriorly. 



Body wall transversely wrinkled, the upper portion also grooved and 

 ridged longitudinally, each ridge corresponding to one of the fully 

 developed tentacles of the marginal cycle. 



Tentacles of the marginal cycle about fifty in number, but difficult 

 to determine, as many were quite small and evidently just developing. 

 It was likewise impossible to enumerate the inner tentacles in a 

 preserved condition as they were crowded together and broke in pieces 

 if any attempt was made to separate them. The animal would not 

 expand fully when alive. 



When living the colouration agreed with the description given by 

 Gosse. The column was uniform yellowish white, with a dark olive- 

 green band at the summit, they area from which they arise white, and 

 upon the base of the tentacles a series of maroon or purple patches. 

 Marginal tentacles slender, not long ; light yellowish brown, with in- 

 distinct bars of chestnut brown across the inner faces. The oral series 

 very dark maroon. 



LITERATURE. 



1860. Gosse, P. H. Actinologia Britannica. 



1889. Haddon, a. C. Revision of British Actiniae, Part I. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. 



1889. Cunningham, J. T. Tealia tuberculata. Jouni. Mar. Biol. Assoc. 



1890. Dixon, G. Y. and A. F. Note on T. tuberculata, etc. Ann. and Mag., Nat 



Hist., Vol. V. 



1891. Carlgren, 0. Das genus Bolocera. Ofr. Kongl. Svensk. Vet. Akad. 



1891. Haddon, A. C., and SHACKiyETON, A. M., Rev. Brit. Actiniae, Part II. Proc. 



R. Dublin Soc. 

 1893. Carlgren, 0. Studien uber Nordische Actinien. Svenska. Ak. Handl. 

 1902. „ „ OUja Actiuiaria. Meeresuntersucliungen. Heft I. 



1905. RoDLE, L. Ceriantlies d'atlantique nord. 



