488 Verrill, Notes on Radiata. 



in<v from its mouth are the spermatic cords, which are often protruded 

 in a rehxxed or exhausted state of the animal." 



Nemactis primula Edw and Haime loc. cit. 



Adinia primula Draytdn, op. cit., p. 13-4, PI. 2, flg. 12 to 15, 1846. 



Small, scarcely an inch high and broad, slightly dilated above and 

 below. Tentacles short, 2 or 3 lines long, slender, arranged in 3 

 series. Mouth somewhat prominent, -33 of an inch long. Column 

 with vertical colored lines, which are often interrupted. 



One variety has a flesh-colored column, with many dark orange, par- 

 allel vertical lines ; tentacles white at base, tips orange ; disk yellow- 

 ish brown ; mouth pale flesh-color ; tubercles and margin of disk 

 green. Another is pink at base, bright green above, with vertical 

 dotted lines of carmine ; disk carmine ; tentacles bright yellow ; mar- 

 ginal tubercles dull green. In another the outer tentacles are white, 

 the rest red ; disk and mouth light blue ; tubercles white. A fourth 

 variety is white, clouded with pink and green, dotted with crimson ; 

 outer tentacles white, the rest brilliant carmine ; disk pale lake ; mar- 

 ginal tubercles green. 



Shores of San Lorenzo I., in tide pools, — U. S. Expl. Expedition, 



Nemactis Draytonii Edw. and Haime, op. cit., p. 282. 



Actinia primula (pars) Drayton, op. cit., p. 135, PI. 2, fig. 16, 1846. 



Form and general appearance as in the preceding, " with prominent 

 green tubercles but no distinct tentacles." Column pale bluish, with 

 vertical brown lines. Disk bluish white, with brown radii ; mouth 

 reddish. 



San Lorenzo, — U. S. Expl. Expedition. 



Nem.actis (?) Chilensis Verriii. 



Actinia Chilensis Lesson, Voyage Coquiile, p. 76, PI. 2, fig. 5, 1832. 

 Dysactis Chilensis Edw. and H., op. cit., p. 262, 1857. 



Column, as figured, subcorneal, decreasing in size from the base up- 

 ward, marked with vertical sulcations. Disk of moderate size, radi- 

 ated. Mouth rather large, oblong. Tentacles of moderate length, 

 slender, subulate, arranged in one row around the margin, about 50 

 in number. Fourteen very long, slender, filiform, snow-white organs, 

 apparently acontia, are represented as emerging from the margin out- 

 side of the true tentacles. No marginal tubercles are figured. 



Color of column light green, with vertical lines of dark green ; disk 

 pinkish with darker radii ; tentacles orange, tinged with crimson. 



Height nearly 1 inch; diameter 1 25 ; length of tentacles '35 to '50; 

 of filiform orgcans 1*5. 



