24.8 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
12. ACTINIA BISERIALIS, Forbes. 
Hab. Frequent among rocks at low-water in the island 
of Herne (Guernsey), Prof. Forbes. 
Professor Forbes describes it as appearing pedunculated 
from the narrowness of the lower part of the body; tenta- 
cula in two rows, the inner row of sixteen, three times as 
long as those of the outer row; colour dark brown, with 
blue stripes bifurcating towards the base. 
13. ACTINIA VERMICULARIS, /. Forbes. 
Hab. On shells; dredged by Prof. H. Forbes, and Mr. 
M‘Andrew, in deep water in Zetland. 
This is, in Dr. Johnston’s ‘ History,’ described by Pro- 
fessor Edward Forbes as cylindrical, long, smooth, greyish- 
pink ; disc white, with twenty-four long tentacula, and a 
few short ones outside. When contracted and not attached, 
more like a Planarian worm than an Acta. When irri- 
tated, gives out in the dark a vivid phosphorescent light. 
tt Skin with porous warts. 
14, AcTINIA GEMMACEA, Gertner. 
Hab. Coast of Cornwall, Geertner. 
It is thus described by Ellis :—‘ The colour of the stem 
is of a pale red near the base; the rest of a yellow mixed 
with grey ash-colour. The glands of the middle row are 
