558 A. E. Verrill — Anthozoa and Hyclrozoa of the Bermudas. 



ANTHEAD^. 



Actinoides pallida (Duch. and Mich ) Duerden. 



Anthopleura pallida Duch. and Mich., Corall. Antiil., Supl., p. 126, 1866. 

 Actinoides pallida Duerden, Actin. around Jamaica, p. 453, 1898. 



Plate LXVIII. Figure 4. 



This small species has vertical rows of verrucse, only on the upper 

 part of the column, decreasing downward, to which bits of shells 

 were firmly adherent; usually there are about six in the larger rows; 

 the upper one is more prominent and somewhat like an acrorhagus. 

 •It can usually be recognized by the chain of round or elliptical flake- 

 white spots along the inner surface of the tentacles, bordered 

 externally on each side by a narrow dark olive-green or brown line ; 

 some of the spots may touch each other, but they are mostly a little 

 apart and united by a white line, while the dark lines are continuous 

 and persist in preserved specimens after all other colors have faded. 



The disk is variegated with green, brown, gray, and flake-white, the 

 white being in the form of 12 or 24 squarish or oblong radial spots 

 in front of the bases of the inner tentacles, and edged with brown 

 radial lines ; the lips are either green or white. 



Not uncommon under stones at low-tide near Bailey Bay. 



Actinia Bermudensis Verrill, Amer. Joum. Sci., vi, p. 495, 1898. 



? Dipladis Bermudensis McMurrich, in The Bermuda Is., p. 116, pi. 10, figs. 4, 6, 

 pi. 11, figs. 1, 2, 1889. 



Plate LXVII. Figure 7. 



This is a common red species with a circle of large, round, blue 

 acrorhagi close to the tentacular margin. Occasionally brownish 

 yellow or rust-yellow specimens occur [var. ferruginea V.). 



Prof. McMurrich has suggested (in letter) that it may prove to 

 be the same as his Diplactis, the latter having been described from 

 badly preserved specimens. If so his description certainly does not 

 apply Avell to this species, which is a typical Actinia. 



Common under stones at and above low-tide mark. 



