468 Verrill, Notes on Badiata. 



Bnnod.es papillosa Verriii. 



Actinia papulosa Lesson, Voyage Coquille, Zoophytes, p. 78, PI. iii, fig. 2, 183l', {non 



Ehrenberg, 1834 

 Cereus papillosus Edw. and H., Corall., i, p. 26'7, 1857. 



Column low and broad, covered tlironghout with numerous, crowded, 

 conspicuous veiTucae, closely arranged in vertical rows. Tentacles 

 very numerous, rather short, in three series. Mouth (as figured) with 

 six lobes, in expansion. Color bright green, the verructe lighter, each 

 surrounded by a circle of bright red ; tentacles bright red, with lighter 

 tips, disk flesh-colored. 



Talacahnano, Chili, to Lima, Peru, on submerged rocks ; very com- 

 mon near Quiriquine, — Lesson. 



BunodeS pluvia VerriU. 



Actinia pluvia Drayton, op. cit., p. 144, PL 4, fig. 30, 1846. 

 Cereus pluvia E. and H., CoraU. i, p. 267, 1857. 



Column broad, 2-5 inches in diameter at middle, expanding above 

 and below to 3*25. Surface closely covered throughout with small, 

 rounded tubercles or papillae, upper margin not tuberculate. Tenta- 

 cles numerous, somewhat crowded, in three series, "5 inch long, stout 

 (over a line thick at base), subulate. Disk strongly marked with ra- 

 diating lines, mouth prominent. Color very variable; sometimes 

 bright orange throughout, with the tentacles a little darker and the 

 disk paler. Some have dull red tentacles ; others pale red, with the 

 mouth very deep red. In others the column is dark brownish green, 

 with the papillffi bright orange, tipped with white beads or dots. 



The orange variety, when disturbed, " ejected water from all its 

 tentacles to a distance of 2 or 3 feet." 



San Lorenzo I., Peru, on rocks, — J. P. Couthouy, U. S. Expl. Exp. 



This species may prove to be identical with the preceding, but this 

 cannot be determined from the original figures and descriptions. 



Bunodes ocellata Verrill. 



Actinia ocellatci Lesson, op. cit, p. 79, PI. iii, fig. 5, 1832. 

 Cereus f ocellatus Edw. and H., Corall., i, p. 268, 1857. 



Column covered with small verrucae, regularly arranged in vertical 

 rows, and scarcely crowded. Tentacles numerous, short, subequal, 

 slender, crowded. Column brownish ; the verrucse bright red ; tenta- 

 cles brownish red with light tips ; disk lighter, brownish near the 

 mouth, which is red within. 



Paita, Peru, in crevices among rocks, rare, — Lesson. 



