A. JS. Verrill — Anthozoa and Hydrozoa of the Bermudas. 557 



Aiptasia tagetes (D. and M.) Andres, 



Bartholomea tagetes Duch. and Mich., Supl. Corall. AntilL, p. 39, pi. vi, fig. 16, ]866. 

 Aiptasia tagetes Andres, Actinias, 1883. McMurrich, Actin. Bahama Is., p. 12. 



Plate LXVII. Figure 2. 



Common at low-tide in crevices of the reefs. Usually green, or 

 dark olive-green, with white specks. 



Phellia rufa Verrill, sp. nov. 



f Phellia clavata Duerden, Actin. Jamaica, p. 459, 1898 {non D. and Mich.*). 

 Plate LXVIII. Figure 2. 



Column rather slender, usually cylindrical or nearly so, but often 

 somewhat hour-glass-shaped ; in expansion often three or four times 

 as high as broad, the capitulum forming about one-fourth the height. 

 Scapus covered with a thick, firmly adherent, tough coat of sand, 

 etc., its upper edge slightly free and irregularly denticulated. Ten- 

 tacles 36 to 48, in the larger examples, about as long as the diameter 

 of the column or rather longer, the inner ones somewhat longer than 

 the others, but not abruptly so, regularly tapered, subacute. 



Color of scapus, under the sandy coat, dull brown ; capitulum 

 light rosy I'ed to brick-red and flesh-color, translucent ; tentacles 

 variable, most often light terra-cotta red, or salmon-red, sometimes 

 bright red, broadly tipped with reddish brown, and crossed by two 

 or three broad, V-shaped or W-shaped reddish-brown bands, and 

 with an elongated spot of the same color on each side of the base ; 

 disk similar to the tentacles in color, variegated with brown and 

 flake- white spots, radially arranged. 



Height of largest, 20 to 32"^'™ ; diameter, 8 to 12"™ in expansion. 



Common under and in crevices of stones and dead corals, just 

 below low-tide mark (2 to 6 feet). 



This agrees pretty closely with the Jamaican species described as 

 Phellia clavata by Duerden, but not with the original account of 

 that species. 



* The species described by Duch. and Mich, has the following synonymy : 

 Phellia Americana Verrill, Proc. Essex Inst., v, p. 327 [13j. 



Paraciis clavata Duch. and Mich., Corall. Antilles, p. 40, pi. vi, figs. 7, 8, 1860 

 {non Phellia clavata Stimp., sp., 1855; Verrill, op. cit, iv, 1865, and vol. vi, 

 pi. i, figs. 3-3&, 1869; wee P/^eZZm ctoyata Duerden, Actiuaria around Jamaica, 

 Journ. Inst. Jamaica, ii, p. 459, 1898). 



Ca]}nea clavata Duch. and Mich., Supl., p. 33, 1866. 



