ASTR.EACEA. 
ILYAXTHTJDJS. 
THE SCOTTISH PEARLET. 
U^anthus Scoticus. 
Specljic Charactei’. Tentacles slender, filiform, long; marked with a 
dark line. 
Iluanthos Scoticus. Forbes, Ann. X. H. Ser. 1. v. 183. pi. iii. figs. 2, 3. 
W. Thompsox, Ann. X. H. Ser. 1. xv. 322. John- 
ston, Brit. Zooph. Ed. 2. i. 243. pi. xlv. figs. 1, 2. 
M. Edwards, Hist. Xat. des Coralliaires, i. 284. 
Ilyanthus Scoticus. Gosse, Man. Mar. Zool. L 30; Ann. X. H. Ser. 3v i. 417. 
GEXERAL DESCRIPTIOX. 
Form. 
Cofumn. Pear-shapetl, large above, tapering to a point at its lower 
extremity. 
Disk. (“ Mouth,” Forbes ; but probably the Disk is meant.) Round, 
and rather small. 
Tentacles. Numerous (44, according to Forbes’s figure), long(more than 
half as long as the body), slender, filiform, of nejirly equal thickness 
throughout (apparently set in two or three rows). 
Colour. 
Column. Pink, with regular distant longitudinal white stripes. 
Tentacles. Greenish, with a dark line down the middle of each ; very 
nearly resembling those of Rapp’s Act. ,filiformis. 
Size. 
Length about an inch and a h.alf. 
Locality. 
The west coast of Scotland, and the east of Ireland : deep water. 
This genus was instituted by the late E. Forbes, to 
receive a “ remarkable zoophyte,” which he had dredged 
