ASTRJEACEA. 
ILYANTHIDAi. 
THE PAINTED PUFFLET. 
Edwardsia calUmorpha. 
Plate VII. Fig. 7. 
Specific Character. Tentacles sixteen, transversely dashed with white : 
capitulum chocolate-brown, painted with white. 
Scolanthus callimorphus. Gosse, Annals N. H. Ser. 2. xii. 157 ; pi. x. 
Edwardsia calUmorpha. Ibid. Linn. Trans, xxi. 271 : Man. Mar. Zool. 
i. 31 ; fig. 45 : Ann. N. H. Ser. 3. i. 418. 
GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
Form. 
Column. Nearly cylindrical, slightly enlarging posteriorly, worm-like, 
the length in extension being to the diameter as 10 : 1. Capitulum a 
short pillar, slightly contracted above and below the middle, and most 
expanded at the margin ; marked with eight invections, each of which is 
divided towards the summit into two ; the surface smooth and delicate. 
Scapus opaque, leathery, rough and minutely corrugated. Physa (not 
observed). 
Disk. Plane ; radii distinct. 
Tentacles. Sixteen, marginal, set apparently in a single row, but yet 
slightly alternating, corresponding to the invections and semi-invections ; 
long (nearly thrice the diameter of the disk), slender, slightly tapering, 
obtusely pointed. They radiate horizontally or diagonally, and are fre- 
quently intro- or retro-verted. 
Mouth. Set on a prominent cone. 
Colour. 
Column. Capitulum rich chocolate-brown, irregularly dashed with white 
and black, each invection bearing a conspicuous lozenge-shaped spot of 
cream-white at its foot, and each semi-invection a triangular spot of white 
at the summit. These marks are well defined, and their effect is very 
beautiful. Scapus a deep orange-yellow, somewhat tarnished. 
Disk. White, marked with a star of pointed arches of deep sienna- 
brown, each arch having a radial stria for its centre, and a circle sur- 
rounding the mouth for its base. The two gonidial radii dark brown. 
