260 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
which it swelled to a great size. It was voracious, and 
swallowed, greedily, periwinkles and bits of haddock and 
whiting. By mistake, some person gave it a small piece of 
a salted fish, which it swallowed, but soon rejected. During 
the short time that it retained it, it had injured its stomach, 
for it continued to twist itself very much, turning out the 
lobes of its stomach, but finding no relief. In a short 
time the stomach was completely turned out, and soon after 
the poor animal died. 
Genus XXXIII. ILUANTHOS, Ffordes. 
Gen. Char. Body cylindrical, tapering to a point at its poste- 
rior extremity, free? ‘Tentacula simple, retractile, surrounding 
the mouth.—forves. 
1. Invantuos Scoricus, &. Forbes. (Pl. XIV. fig. 47.) 
Hab. Lochryan, E. Forbes; Balbriggan, Ireland, Mrs. 
Hancock. 
It is described by Professor Forbes as a free Actinia, 
about an inch and a half in length, the body large above, 
but tapering towards its posterior extremity; the mouth 
surrounded by a numerous circle of tentacula. “The body 
is of a pink colour, with white longitudinal stripes; the 
Beas 
