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to say wliether these were emitted in the usual manner, 
or exposed by a rupture of the integuments. The invalid 
was removed to a separate jar of sea-water, (the best hos- 
pital for sick Actinice,) and it is now attached to the glass, 
which is, as you know, a good symptom, but I can hardly 
pronounce it to be as yet quite convalescent.” Some weeks 
after I received tidings that the invalid had “ perfectly 
recovered from its involuntary visit to the interior of hellts." 
As in Antliea, the non-retractile character is not absolute 
in our Ai])tasia ; Mr. Holdsworth has repeatedly seen it 
with the tentacles quite concealed, the body globose and 
very pellucid, and the orifice long and linear. 
The only localities I am as yet acquainted with for 
Aiptasia Couclin are the following : — 
Bordeaux Harbour, Guernsey, J. D. H.: Herm, 8. 
Whitchurch: Gwyllyn Vase, Helford River, W. P. C.: 
Falmouth, 8. Hodges. 
The species before us forms a beautiful link of con- 
nexion between the 8agartiadce and the Antheadce, pre- 
senting very marked resemblances to 8. bellis and 8. viduata 
in the former, while the preponderance of its characters 
allies it with Anthea cereus. 
S. bellis. 
S. viduata. 
A. COUCHII. 
[A. rhodora.] 
A. cereus. 
II. chrysanthellum. 
