556 A. E. Veri'ill — Anthozoa and Hydrozoa of the Bermudas. 



Ricordea florida (D. and M.). 



? Eicordea florida Duch. and Mich., Corall. Antill., p. 42, pi, vi, fig. 11, 1860. 



Duerden, op. cit., p. 156, pi. x, fig. 7, pi. xi, figs. 5, 6, pi. xii, figs. 1, 2, pi. xiii, 



fig. 1, 1900. 

 Heteranthus floridus McMurrich, op. cit., p. 47, pi. i, fig. 10, pi. iv, figs. 4, 5, 1889. 



Habits and colors nearly the same as of the last. 



It is possible that this is not the true florida of D. and M., but it 

 appears to be the species described under this name by McMurrich. 

 Duerden's species agrees better with the type of D. and M. 



Epicystis osculifera (Les.) Yer. 

 Actinia osculifera Leseur, Jouru. Philad. Acad. Sci., i, p. 175, 1817. 



This species or variety scarcely differs from E. crucifera, except 

 in lacking the transverse white ridges on the tentacles, characteristic 

 of the latter. The colors of the two forms are similar and are 

 variable ia the same way in each. 



Leseur's description seems to apply better to this than to any 

 other known West Indian form. Duerden (op. cit., 1900, p. 139), 

 considers this only a variety of E. crucifera. 



Bunodactis stelloides (McMur.) Verrill. 

 Aulaciinia stelloides McMurrich, Actinaria of Bahama Is, p. 28, pi. i, figs 5, 6, pi. 



iii, figs. 8-10, 1889. 

 Aulactinia stella Duerden, Journ. Inst. Jam., ii, p. 454, 189S {non Verrill sp.). 

 Bunodella stelloides Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., vii, p. 43, Jan., 1898. 

 Bunodactis stelloides Verrill, op. cit., vii, p. 146, foot note, 1899. 



Common under stones near low-tide mark. 



SAGARTIADiE. 



Aiptasia annulata (Les.) Andres. 



Actinia annulata Leseur, Journ. Philad. Acad., i, p. 172, 1817. 

 Aiptasia annulata Andres, Actinies, 1883. McMurrich, Actinaria Bahama Is., p. 

 7, pi. 1, fig. 1, pi. iii, fig. 1, 1889. 



Plate LXVIIL Figure 3. 

 This species is not uncommon in the crevices of the reefs at and 

 below low-tide. The largest examples were 8 inches or more in 

 diameter when fully expanded and had several hundreds of tenta- 

 cles. The color is generally light green with subspiral, raised, white 

 annulations on the tentacles, which persist in preserved specimens. 



