Veri'ill, JSTotes on Radiata. 469 



This species and the two precedmg, appear to be true Bunodes, so 

 far as can be judged from the figures and descriptions, but yet on re- 

 examination they may be found to belong to other allied genera. 



XJrticina Ehrenberg (emended). 



Urticina (subdivision of Actinia) Eiir., Corall. rothen Meeres, p. 33. 1834. 

 Rhodactinia Agassiz, Comples-ieuUus, xxv, p. 677, 1847, (without dehcriptioi;) ; Yer- 



nll, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Plist., i, p. 18, 1864. 

 Bunodes (pars) Gosse, Trans. LiDU. Soc, xxi, p. 274, 1855. 

 Cereus {pars) Edw. and Haime, Corall., i, p. 263, 1857, {non Okeu). 

 Tealia Gosse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d series,!, p. 417, 1858; Actin Brit., p. 205. 



Column low and broad, in expansion usually broader than high, 

 margin with a more or less distinct fold or "parapet." Surface cov- 

 ei'ed with irregularly and distantly scattered verruciform suckers, 

 which are often small and inconspicuous, but capable of strong adhe- 

 sion.. Margin of the disk slightly dentate or tuberculate, or not at all 

 so. Tentacles large and stout, retractile. Type U. crassicornis Ehr. 



Urticina crassicornis Ehr. 



Actinia crassicornis Miiller, Prod. Zool. Danica, p. 231, 1776; Johnston, Britisli Zo- 



ophjtts, i, p. 226, PI. 40; Van Beneden, Faune Litt. de Belgique, Polypes, p. 191. 

 Actinia spectabilis Fabr., Fauna Gioenl., p. 351, 1788. 

 f Actinia coriacea Cuvier, Tabl. elem., p. 653, 1797; Regne Animal, torn, iv, ed. i, 



p. 51, 1817; Rapp, Polypen im Allg., p. 51, Taf. i, fig. 3 and 4, 1829; Jolmston, 



Br. Zoophytes, i, p. 224, PI. 39, 1847. 

 f Actinia Holsatica Miiller, ZooL Danica, iv, p. 23, PI. 139, 1S06. 

 Isacmcea (Urticina) crassicornis Elirenberg, Coral, rothen Meeres, p. 33, 1834. 

 f Isacmcea (Urticina) papillosa Ehr., op. cit., p. 33, (perhaps =:?7. digitata) 

 ? Cribrina coriacea Elir , op. cit , p. 40. 

 f Actinia himaculata Grube, Actinieu, p. 4, fig. 4, 1840. 

 Rhodactinia Davisii Aga&siz, Comptes-rendus, xxsv, p. 677, 1847; Yerrill, Mem. 



Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., i, p. 18, 1864. 

 Actinia obtruncata and A. carneola Stimpson, Invert, of Grand Menan, p. 7, 1S53. 

 Bunodes crassicornis Gosse, Trans. Linn. Soc, xxi, p. 274, 1855. 

 Actinia? felina Edw. and H., Coral]., i, p. 242, 1857. 

 f Cerms coriaceus Edw. and Haime, Corall., i, p. 264, PI. C 1. fig. 4, 1857. 

 Tealia crassicornis Gosse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., aer. 3, i, p. 417, 1858; Actin- 



ologia Bdtannica, p 209, PL iv, fig. 1, 1860. 

 ? Bolocera eques and Stomplda ChurcMoi Gosse, Actin. Brit., p. 222 and 351, PI. viii, 



fig. 5, ix, fig. 6. 

 f Actinia elegantissima Brandt, Prodromus descr. Anim. a Mertensio, p. 13, 1835; 



Edw. audH., Corah., i, p. 289. 

 f Actinia Laurentii Brandt, op. cit., p. 13 ; Edw. and H., Corall.. i, p. 289 



Column large, low, usually broader than high in full expansion, the 

 surface bearing small, distant suckers, which are capable of becoming 



