THE SCARLET CRISP-CORAL. 
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covered with large round prominent warts ; head globose, smooth, imper- 
forate ; very contractile, but not retractile. 
Mouth. A wide slit in the direction of the long axis : lip crenate, with 
forty to sixty-five deep furrows. 
Colour. 
A hiilliant orange-scarlet; a little lighter on the inner tentacles : the 
furrows of the lip intense blood-red. 
Size. 
Corallum. About one and a half inch in diameter, and a little less in 
height. 
Locality, 
The coasts of Norway and Shetland : deep water. 
Of this species, by far the largest and noblest of the 
simple European Corals, a specimen was dredged by j\Ir. 
.MacAndrew about twenty-five miles off East Shetland, in 
ninety fathoms. The individual v/as broken by the dredge, 
and only a portion of the corallum was secured, which i.s 
now in the British Museum. There can be no doubt, 
however, of its identity. 
A considerable number of examples have been obtained 
by Mr. Sars at Oxfjord, close to North Cape, the extreme 
northern point of Europe. It lives at an amazing deptli, 
even from 150 to 200 fathoms, where the pressure of the 
superincumbent water must be immense. Clear as are 
the waters of the northern seas, so vast a volume of water 
must surely absorb nearly the whole of the rays of light, 
and the rich hues of the animal arc therefore the more 
remarkable. It lies free on the mud or clay, never having 
occurred with evidence of recent attachment. 
The generic name is formed from ovXo<;, crisped, and 
Kva6o<;, a cup. 
[Desmophyllum.] 
ARCTICUS. 
[Flabcllum.] 
