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and to continue detached. In these last two particulars 
they approach the Ilyantkidce. Coccinea and parasitica 
are the links of connexion between the first group and this, 
though not inter se. In the event of re-distribution, this 
group might receive the name of Cylista, from kvXiq), to 
wallow about. 
Beilis will probably be eonsidered by many as worthy 
of generic separation. The slenderness and elongation of 
its column when fully expanded, the salver-like expanse of 
its disk, the small size, great number, and erowded arrange- 
ment of its tentaeles, the undulation of its margin, as well 
as the peeuliarities of its colouring, isolate it strongly from 
its fellows. Miniata, from tlie undulation of its margin, 
send, parasitica, from the eraterine form of its disk, and the 
multitude of its tentacles, are connecting links with it in 
their respective groups ; while bellis looks, as has been 
already intimated, towards other genera, as Actinoloba, 
Aiptasia, &c. It might be called Scyphia, from aKvj>o<i, a 
drinking-bowl. 
Finally, clirysosplenium is the most aberrant form that I 
have included in the genus, so far as I am able to judge of 
its peculiarities without personal inspection. Its affinities 
I have just enumerated. If I had isolated it generically, I 
would have named it Chrysoela, “ that which is studded 
with golden nails,” from ')(pvco<i, gold, and y\o<;, a nail. 
