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Color of disk usually buff, with white radii ; tentacles translucent 

 buff with a broad proximal patch of flake-white, bej^ond which there 

 are two or three transverse bands of dark i-eddisli brown. The 

 lowest of these bands is W-shaped ; the others are simple annula- 

 tions. 



Length, in life, 18 to 24™'" ; diameter, 4 to 5'"'". 



Long Bird Island, under stones at low-tide, April 19th; also at 

 Waterloo, Castle Harbor. 



This species has the aspect of an Edioardsia, but its basal disk is 

 well developed. 



Phellla rufa Ver. 



These Trans., x, p. 557, pi. Ixviii, fig. 2, 1900. 



Plate VI. Figure 5. 



Numerous fine specimens of this species were found under stones 

 in several localities, but it was particularly abundant and large at 

 Waterloo, Castle Harbor, where the tidal streams from the adjacent 

 caves flow out of the stony shores between tides. 



At the latter locality specimens very much larger than the tyjjes 

 were obtained. Some of these, in life, were 75 to 100™'" long, and 

 20 to .36'"°^ in diameter of body, with a correspondingly increased 

 number of tentacles, which were often 96 to 120 ; the inner 12 are 

 often erect and decidedly the largest. The form of the body is very 

 changeable. 



In nearly all cases the column is a deep brownish red or dull 

 salmon-brown, and the tough epidermis, which adheres very closely 

 and extends nearly to the tentacles, is wrinkled in contraction. The 

 disk and tentacles vary much in color, but are nearly always hand- 

 somely variegated with red, salmon-brown, or purplish brown, and 

 flake-white. The tentacles are generally banded with flake-white 

 and often they have two or three W-shaped bands of dark purplish 

 brown or reddish brown. The disk has radial stripes or spots of the 

 same brown colors, alternating with white, or the brown spots may 

 be V-shaped. 



Aiptasia tac/etes (D. & M.) Andres. 



Plate VI. Figure 6. 

 VeiTill, these Trans., x, p. 557, pi. Ixvii, fi^. 2, 1900. 



This species was found very common in 1901, and numerous 

 marked variations in its colors were observed. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XI. 4 October, 1901. 



