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This species is slender at the base, but enlarges to- 

 wards the disc^ which, being concave, gives the anemone 

 a trumpet shape. The tentacles are in four rows, the 

 innermost row being H in. long and the outermost \ in. 

 They are sometimes forked. The cinclides appear to 

 be very easily examined in this species. Mr. Gosse 

 states that he has been able to thrust a fine needle into 

 them without the animal being conscious of it. 



Mr. Holdsworth relates an instance of a specimen of 

 this species which he missed on one occasion from his 

 aquarium, and having applied the stomach-pump, in 

 the shape of a stick, down the throats of some speci- 

 mens of helUs, he succeeded in dislodging it from one 

 of them amongst a shapeless mass of membrane and 

 acontia.''^ Strange to say, this poor victim recovered 

 from its Jonah-like adventure. 



Sub-family II. PnELLioiE, Andres. 



Sjsecies possessing acontia and cinclides. Tentacles 

 retractile, small, and few in number. Column partly 

 clothed with a tough epidermis, which is rough externally 

 and firmly adherent to the epithelium. 



Dr. Andres establishes the Phellidce as a separate 

 sub-family of the Actinince, on the ground of the 

 possession by the species comprised in it of a cuticular 

 sheath. 



The sub-family contains (so far as British species 

 are concerned) three genera — Phellia, Octophellia, and 

 Chitonactis. The species included by Dr. Andres in 

 the genera Phellia and Octophellia are all placed by 

 Mr. Gosse, and also by Prof. Hertwig, in the former of 

 these genera. The genus Chitonactis was established 

 by Fischer (who is followed by Dr. Andres) for the 



