50 A. E. Verrill — Additions to the JBauna of the Bermudas. 



The most prolific locality was the mangrove swamp at " Fairy 

 Lands," where it occurred in great numbers, in April, attached to 

 the fallen and floating mangrove leaves and twigs. At this place 

 numerous color-varieties occurred. Many of the specimens had one 

 or both of the directive tentacles longer than the rest and partially 

 or wholly flake-white ; a band of white also crossed the disk in line 

 with these tentacles. The other tentacles and disk were variously 

 spotted and barred with flake-white ; most commonly the ground- 

 color of the tentacles was pale umber-brown or greenish, crossed by 

 two to five unequal half bands and crescents of flake-white, on the 

 inside. 



One nearly albino specimen occurred at Waterloo. This had a 

 pale flesh-colored, translucent column, with white specks above. The 

 long, slendei", acute tentacles were pale yellowish, crossed on the 

 inside, mostly near the middle, with 8-12 crescent-shaped, flake- white 

 spots and intermediate specks ; disk pale, with radial flake-white 

 specks and spots. 



Anemonia elegans V., sp. nov. 



Plate VI. Figure 4. 



Column smooth, in ordinar}^ expansion short, cylindrical, expanded 

 at the base and summit ; basal disk large, with undulated edges. 

 Tentacles not retractile, numerous, in three or four rows, the inner 

 ones much the longer, about equal to the diameter of the disk, 

 slender, but little tapered, obtuse. Disk usually depressed with the 

 mouth raised, but it is very changeable. 



Color of column pale, brownish yellow or light fawn-color, some- 

 times light orange ; tentacles light yellow or pale orange-yellow, 

 with light purple or pink tips, edged below with whitish, and with 

 a red basal line on each side and behind the base, and a triangular 

 spot of whitish on the inner base in some cases ; lips light red or 

 scarlet ; inside of mouth dai'ker red, with two whitish gonidial 

 grooves ; disk yellowish, with narrow radial red or brown lines. 



Height of column, in life, 12 to IS""™; diameter, 10 to 12"'™; 

 length of longest tentacles, 10 to 12"'". 



Cony Island, March 20, 1901 (A. H. V.). 



Castle Harbor, under stones at low-tide, in May. Rare. 



In color this resembles some varieties of Condylactis passijioray 

 but it has much more numerous and smaller tentacles than the young 

 of that species of similar size. 



