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THE FISII-MOUTII ANEMONE. 
The acontia contained, as usual, both unchambered and 
chambered cnidce. The former were linear-oblong, g^th 
of an inch in length, discharging an ecthorceum, four times 
as long as themselves, surrounded with a single spiral band. 
The latter were of the same form, but twice as long and 
wide, discharging an ecthorceum very little longer than 
themselves, in which I could not discern the least trace either 
of barbs or screw. The acontiiim was taken, certainly, 
from the specimen last mentioned, when it was either dying 
or dead, decomposition having commenced ; but the invest- 
ing cilia were in parts still active, and the cnidce dis- 
charged vigorously, just as when alive. 
In both varieties the small, conical, pointed tentacles 
projecting very regularly from the margin, impart a pecu- 
liar and well-recognised character to the species. These 
organs so strongly resembled the little sharp teeth crowded 
round the jaws of some fishes, that I was induced to borrow 
a nomen trivicde from that resemblance. The appellations 
of the varieties • allude, as my classical readers will have 
perceived, to the long-standing custom among the Oriental 
ladies (nor altogether unknown to the dandies of ancient 
Rome*) of staining the eyelids with stibium, a preparation 
of antimony, for the purpose of imparting a soft voluptuous 
languor to the eyes. Jezebel “ put her eyes in painting” 
(2 Kings ix. 30 ; marg.). 
ornata. 
? iCTiTiiYSTo:NrA. B. crassicornis. 
? 
miniata. 
* See Pliny, Nat. Hist, xi, 37 ; Juv, Sat. ii. 93. 
