174 NATURAL HISTOET OP 



Iluantlios Scoticus {Forhes, Thomson, M. JEdw., G. J., 

 D. L.). 



Hab. : LocTiryan {Forhes), Balbriggan, Ireland {Mrs. 

 SancocJi). Lengtli 1^ in. 



Colour. Pink, with white stripes and greenish 

 tentacles. 



A free actinoid, with 44 long filiform tentacles. 



2. I. MiTCHELLii, Gosse. " The Scarlet Pearlet.'' 



Iluanthos Mitchellii (P.H. G., M. Ediv.). 



Hab. : Weymouth (P. H. G.) . Length 2 in. 



Colour. Scarlet, with variegated (purplish- black, 

 white and red) disc. Tentacles (about 36 in two rows, 

 thick and conical) white, with bands of white and 

 purple. 



Sub-family VI. Siphonactinid^. 



Body pear-sha2:)ed or cylindrical. Tentacles not more 

 than 12. Mouth furnished with a single gonidial groove, 

 the edges of which are soldered so as to form a tube, 

 terminating in a thickened expanded rim [conchula), the 

 'inargin of loliich is divided. 



Genus Siphonactinia, Banielsen and Karen. 



Species having the proximal end perforate. Surface 

 smooth, but studded with minute suckers. Tentacles 

 twelve. 



1. S. HASTATA, Gosse. " The Arrow Muzzlet." 



Peachia hastata (P. H. G.) . 



Rah. : Torbay (P. H. G.), St. Andrew's {Mcintosh). 

 Length 4 in. 



Colour. Pale red, with twelve white lines marking 

 the septa, distal part brownish. Disc pale red, each 

 radius marked with two Vs. Tentacles pellucid, each 

 with two rows of deep brown arrowhead-like marks. 



