ASTBjEACEA. 
BUNODIDJi. 
THE DEEPLET. 
Bolocera Tueclice. 
Plate T. fig. 1. 
Specific Character, Body dull red ; tentacles chestnut. 
Actinia Tuedice. Johnston, Mag. Nat. Hist. v. 163 ; fig. 58. 
Anthea Tuedice. Ibid., Brit. Zooph. Ed. 2. ; i. 242, fig. 53. Landsbokodgh, 
Scott. Chr. Her. 1840, 243. Cocks, Rep. Cornw. Pol. 
Soc. 1851, 11 ; pi, ii. fig. 33. Gosse, Ann. N. H. ; 
Ser. 3. i. 416. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Base. Adherent, scarcely exceeding the column. 
Column. Cylindrical, smooth and as if polished on the general surface, 
but studded, somewhat sparsely, with minute rounded warts, which are 
scarcely apparent when the animal is extended, but, on contraction, " re- 
semble the heads of small pins in a pincushion” (TT^. P. C.) ; in this condi- 
tion the smooth surface is thrown into transverse w'rinkles. Substance 
firm and sub-cartilaginous. 
Dish. Flat, smooth, without conspicuous radii ; outline circular, not 
exceeding the column. 
Tentacles. Numerous, in three rows, close-set; the innermost remote 
from the mouth, sometimes two inches in length, and half an inch in 
diameter ; the other rows diminishing in gradation ; stout, constricted at 
the foot, then swollen, and tapering to an obtuse point, which is perforate ; 
marked with longitudinal sulci, which are obliterated when the tentacle is 
completely distended ; very flexuous and motile ; readily detached, and 
retaining their irritability and worm-like motions long after the separation. 
They cannot be retracted within the column, nor are thej”^ capable of any 
considerable elongation or contraction. 
Mouth. Not raised on a cone. Lip apparently not thickened. Stomach- 
waU capable of being protruded in the form of great bladder-Uke lobes. 
Colour. 
Column. An uniform deep fiesh-colour, reddish, or brownish-orange. 
Dish. A lighter tinge of the same. 
Tentacles. Chestnut or reddish fiesh-colour. 
Stomach. "When protruded, reddish with paler lines. 
