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BUNODIDiE. 
Last May, Mr. C. W. Peach, of Wick, sent me numerous 
sketches, some of which were coloured, of an Anemone 
which lie had obtained at Peterhead, in April, 1850, and 
again in December, 1851 ; on each occasion from the hook 
of a fisherman’s deep-sea line. These were manifestly 
identical with Miss Church’s specimen. 
It was not, however, until October, 1858, that I became, 
through the kind zeal of the llev. W. Gregor, of Macduff, 
personally acquainted with this fine species. Within three 
months he has sent me, on different occasions, half-a-dozen 
individuals, including all the varieties distinguished above, 
wliich argues its variability of character. This gentleman 
has been familiar with it for several years, as a not un- 
common inhabitant of the deep water of the Moray Frith. 
It is observable that all the specimens on record have been 
obtained by means of the deep-sea fishing boats. 
The generic name I have formed from wide- 
mouthed ; and the English appellation alludes to the same 
peculiarity, which is highly characteristic. The specific 
name is in honour of the kind correspondent to whom I am 
indebted for my first knowledge of the animal. 
]\Iore aberrant even than llormathia from the typical 
Bimodidcc, and about equally intermediate between this 
family and the Sagartiadie, the genus might with equal 
propriety be placed in cither. In its general aspect it 
rather inclines to the present family, especially by the 
intervention of llormathia, Avlth which it has much in 
common. I have not been able to find any acontia, but 
fragments of craspeda issue from ruptures in the skin, and 
have much the appearance of acontiai^ 
* On two occasions I have seen protrudeii what looked like acontia. 
On one, it was very slender, streaming from the mouth to nearly an inch 
in length, so that I felt sure it was an acontium, till 1 put it under tlie 
nucroscoi)e, when I found throughout the entire length, the ragged evlgo 
of the mesentery from which it had been torn. It was but a crasjtedum. 
