Verrill, Notes on Radiata. 475 



Color quite variable; "column often flesh-colored; disk very vari- 

 able, from uniform olive-brown to variegated witli greenish and yel- 

 lowisli, sometimes all greenish white, in other specimens with six bands 

 of pale yellow alternating with dark lines about the mouth, the rest 

 of the disk being greenish brown ; tentacles very inconstant in color, 

 varying from dark brown, yellow, orange, and pink, to purple and 

 dark greenish brown, sometimes plain, often with 1 to 5 light yellow, 

 small, irregular spots, the inner surface commonly darker colored." — 

 F. H. B. 



The larger specimens, preserved in alcohol, are about 1*5 inches 

 high, and 1 in diameter. 



Pearl Islands; and Panama, under the wharf of the Railroad Co., 

 below half-tide mark, — F, H. Bradley ; Realejo, — F. H. Bradley ; 

 Acajutla, San Salvador, on buoy, — Capt. J. M. Dow. 



This species appears to be tolerably common. In alcohol most of 

 the specimens have the tentacles expanded, often with the stomach 

 everted, others have the disk entirely involved. Mr. Bradley states 

 that it bears rough handliuo- well. 



The following observations apply to an Acajutla specimen, which 

 has not been found in the collection with its corresponding number, 

 but which probably belongs to the same species with that described 

 above. 



" Base broad, 1 inch in diameter ; body stout, with lines of small 

 light drab pustules running down from the small tentaculiform lobes 

 on the edge of the disk; disk 1-5 inches broad, dark brown, with 

 whitish stripes radiating from the small yellowish red mouth ; tenta- 

 cles moderately stout, in three rows (16 : 48 : 48), outer two rows "05 

 inch from edge of disk, inner ones "06 farther inward, base light drab, 

 tips dark red, sometimes marked near the tips with small white spots 

 on the inner side," — F. H. B. 



A species somewhat resembling this in general appearance, as pre- 

 served in alcohol, but evidently distinct, is in the collection from the 

 Pearl Islands. This has very exsert, adhesive suckers, with concave 

 tops, on the middle of the body, but becoming smaller and sessile 

 above and below. Sub-marginal tubercles small and simple. Tenta- 

 cles long and slender, in moderate number. In contraction the body 

 is oval, ITj inches long ; 1 in diameter. It may be a B anodes. 



Phymactis Edw. and Haime. 



Actinia {pars) Drayton, op. cit., p. 125, 184i"i. 

 Phymactis Edw. and H., Corall., i, p. 274, 1857. 



Column rather low and broad, covered with prominent verrucie. 



