THE WARTED CORKLET. 
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By a curious coincidence, on the very day that I disco- 
vered the preceding species, the post brought me a living 
specimen of the present, from Mr. C. W. Peach, of Wick ; 
and so the extreme north-east of Scotland and the south- 
west of England conspired, at the same moment, to 
augment our native Actinologia^ each with a species of 
a genus entirely new to scienee. 
The kindness of Mr. Peaeh had, it is true, sent me 
a specimen of the same animal before this, viz. in the 
preceding May ; but it had arrived dead, and in so 
advanced a stage of decomposition, that I had not been able 
even to form a conjecture of its characters. Observation of 
the species is even now very defective ; for though the last 
specimen sent arrived in health, and continued for upwards 
of a month to live in my possession, yet, during the whole 
of that period, I never saw it expand sufficiently to enable 
me to describe either its tentacles or disk. For the above 
description I am largely indebted to the notes and sketches 
of Mr. Peach. 
The distinction between PhelUa gausapata and P. muro- 
cincta is slight; and future observation may resolve the 
two species into one. The distance of their respective 
localities, however, renders their identity less probable. 
The specimens were obtained from very narrow fissures 
in a rock called Proudfoot, at the entrance of Wick Bay, in 
Caithness. This rock is accessible only at the low water 
of spring-tides. The first specimen obtained, which was 
much larger than the second, remained unattached for 
several days, while in Mr. Peach’s possession, but appeared 
healthy. The smaller one sent to me remained adherent to 
its original fragment of rock for more than a month ; at the 
end of which time I lifted the base from its attachment. 
It was in doing this that I saw the acontia copiously 
discharged from the offended base. 
