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SAGARTIAD^E. 
Locality. 
The south coast of England : deep ■water ; low i-ocks. 
Varieties. 
a. Slihista. The condition above described. 
j3. Astimma. Disk dull olive-grey. Lips dull brick-red. 
I know this little Anemone only by two specimens. The 
first (of the variety stibista) I found on an oyster in the 
fish-market at Weymouth, in the summer of 1853. As the 
oysters with which the market was supplied were brought 
in by a trawler, whose fishing grounds were West Bay, 
and the offing of Weymouth Bay, we may safely set down 
one of these as the native locality of my little prize. 
The second specimen, which exhibited that measure of 
diversity in colour, that I have set down as distinctive of 
the variety astimma, but exactly agreed with the former in 
all its other characters, and was manifestly, at the first 
glance, of the same species, was sent me from Torquay, in 
April, 1856, by the Rev. AV. F. Short. I understand it 
was taken at the insular rock known as the Ore Stone. 
Though less showy than the former specimen, whose 
black-lined face and pouting scarlet lips made it very attrac- 
tive, this latter was still very pretty ; and it proved to be 
easily reconciled to captivity, for it remained in one of my 
tanks, — sometimes under rather unfavourable conditions of 
the water, — from the 10th of April, 1856, to the middle of 
August, 1857, a period of sixteen months. Nor have I any 
reason to believe that it would have died then, but for my 
own carelessness ; for having taken it out of the tank to 
examine it, I incautiously left it, after my observations, 
exposed in a saucer to the midday beams of a hot August 
sun, and found it, of course, killed, when I looked at it 
again. 
