Verrill, Notes on Radiata. 469 



This species and the two precedino;, appear to he true Bunodes, so 

 far as can he judged from the figures and descriptions, l)ut yet on re- 

 examination they may be found to heh)ng to other allied genera. 



Urticina Elirenberg (emended). 



Urticina (subdivision of Actinia) Elir., Corall. rothen Meeres, p. 33. 1834. 

 Rhodactinia Agassiz, Comptes-ieiidus, xxv, p. 677, 1847, (witliout description); Ver- 

 rill, Mem. Boston Soo. Nat. Hist., i, p. 18, 1864. 

 Bunodes (pars) Gosse, Trans. Linn. Soc , xxi, p. 274, 1855. 

 Cereus {2}ars) Edw. and Haime, Corall., i, p. 263, 1857, {7ion Oken). 

 Tealia Gosse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d series,!, p. 417, 1858; Actin Brit., p. 205. 



Column low and broad, in expansion usually broader than high, 

 margin with a more or less distinct fold or " parapet." Surface cov- 

 ered with irregularly and distantly scattered verruciform suckers, 

 which are often small and inconspicuous, but capable of strong adhe- 

 sion. Margin of the disk slightly dentate or tuberculate, or not at all 

 so. Tentacles large and stout, retractile. Type U. crassicornis Ehr. 



Urticina crassicornis Ehr. 



Actinia crassicornis Miiller, Prod. Zool. Danica, p. 281, 1776; Johnston, Britisli Zo- 

 ophytes, i, p. 226, PI. 40; Van Beneden, Faune Litt. de Belgique, Polypes, p. 191. 



Actinia spectabilis Fabr., Fauna Grcenl., p. 351, 1788. 



f Actinia coriacea Cuvier, Tabl. elem.; p. 653, 1797; Regne Animal, torn, iv, ed. i, 

 p. 51, 1817 ; Eapp, Polypen im Allg., p. 51, Taf. i, fig. 3 and 4, 1829 ; Johnston, 

 Br. Zoophytes, i, p. 224, PI. 39, 1847. 



f Actinia Holsatica Miiller, Zool. Danica, iv, p. 23, PI. 139, 1806. 



IsacmcBa (Urticina) crassicornis Ehrenberg, Coral, rothen Meeres, p. 33, 1834. 



? Isacmoea (Urtici7ia) papillosaEhr., op. cit., p. 33, (perhaps =U. digitata) 



f Cribrina coriacea Ehr , op. cit , p. 40. 



? Actinia himaculata Grube, Actinien, p. 4, fig. 4, 1840. 



Rhodactinia Davisii Agassiz, Comptes-rendus, xxxv, p. 677, 1847 ; Verrill, Mem. 

 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., i, p. 18, 1864. 



Actinia obtruncata and A. carneola Stimpson, Invert, of Grand Menan, p. 7. 1S53. 



Bunodes crassicornis Gosse, Trans. Linn. Soc, xxi, p. 274, 1855. 



Actinia? felina Edw. and H., Corall., i, p. 242, 1857. 



f Cereus coriaceus Edw. and Haime, Corall., i, p. 264, PI. C 1. fig. 4, 1857. 



Tealia crassicornis Gosse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, i, p. 417, 1858; Actin- 

 ologia Britannica, p 209, PI. iv, fig. 1, 1860. 



f Bolocera eques and Stomphia Churchice Gosse, Actin. Brit., p. 222 and 351, PL viii, 

 fig. 5, ix, fig. 6. 



? Actinia elegantissima Brandt, Prodromus descr. Anim. a Mertensio, p. 13. 1835; 

 Edw. and H., Corall., i, p. 289. 



? Actinia Laurentii Brandt, op. cit., p. 13 ; Edw. and H., Corall., i, p. 289 



Column large, low, usually broader than high in full expansion, the 

 surface bearing small, distant suckeis, which are capable of becoming 



