loU NATURAL HISTORY OF 



Genus I. Capnea, Forbes. [Kdirvq, a chimney.) 



Body cylindrical. Body wall smooth, invested with 

 a woolly epidermis. Tentacles short, truncate, capitate, 

 retractile. — Gosse. 



C. SANGUiNEA, Fovhes. " The Crock." 



Kapnea sanguinea {Forbes). 



Hab.: Isle of Man {Forbes), Falmouth {Cocks). 

 Height 1 in., diam, \ in. 



Colour. Vermilion, with brown epidermis and 

 orange-scarlet tentacles. 



The tentacles number 48, in three rows of 1 6 each. 



It is an active creature, always more or less tubular 

 in shape, like a chimney- crock or steamboat funnel. 

 The tentacles are not unlike the " embrasures on the 

 top of a turret.'" The lower two-thirds of the body 

 are covered by a woolly epidermis. 



Genus II. Corynactis, Allman. (Kopvvt], a club, 

 aKTL'i, a ray.) 



Body subcylindrical, but very mutable, adhering by 

 an expanded base, and with no separable epidermis. 

 Te)itacles tubular, conical, capitate, retractile, in several 

 rows. — Allman. 



1. C. viRiBis, Allman. "The Globehorn." 



C. Allmanni {Thompson, Cocks, P.H. G., E.P. Wright). 



Hab. : Torquay (P. H. G.), Fowey {C. W. P.), Lundy 

 {C. Kingsley), Crookhaven {Allman). Height ^ in. 



Colour, (a) 8)n.aragdina: Emerald green. Tentacles 

 transparent, with pink knobs. (b) Bhodoprasina : 

 Kosy-lilac. Tentacles umber, with white knobs, (c) 

 Tephrina : Pearl-grey, with brown tentacles. (d) 

 Chrysochlorina : Pale yellow-green. Tentacles maroon, 

 with white knobs, (e) P rasococcina : Pearl-grey, with 



