Verrill, Kotes on Radiata. 487 



with vertical, pale ochreous lines, 1*5 lines apart; disk pale pur- 

 plish ; tentacles yellow. 



Height '68 of an inch ; breadth of disk and base 1 ; length of ten- 

 tacles -16 to -20. 



Valparaiso, Chili, — U. S. Expl. Expedition. 



Sagartia(?) rubus Voniii. 



Actinia rubus Drayton, op. cit., p. 147, PI. 4, fig. 34, 1846. 

 Paractis rubus Eclw. and II., CoralL, i, p. 249, 1857. 



Column small, smooth, dilated above and below, base crenated, sides 

 with interrupted vertical lines. Tentacles short, in 2 series, mouth a 

 little prominent, about a sixth of an inch long. Color of column ash- 

 brown, vertically marked with slate-colored, dotted lines ; tentacles 

 white ; disk rich purple ; mouth the same, except that the opening is 

 whitish. 



Height '15 of an inch ; diameter at base and disk 1 ; length of ten- 

 tacles about '20. 



Valparaiso, Chili, — U. S. Expl. Exp. 



This species is very near the last, if not identical, which is quite 

 probable. The principal diiferences are in color and, apparently, in 

 the number and length of the tentacles, which appear to be longer 

 and fewer in this form. 



Several other undescribed species of Sagartia are known to occur 

 on different parts of the coast. One species from Panama is remark- 

 able for the thinness and transparency of its walls when preserved in 

 alcohol. It grows to a considerable size, some of the preserved spe- 

 cimens being 1 "5 inches high and 1 in diameter. 



Other species were collected at the Gulf of Georgia and well figured 

 by Mr. A. Agassiz, several years ago. 



Nemactis Edw. and Haime, op. cit., p. 282, 1857. 

 Actinia {pars) Dana, Zoophytes, 1846. 



Margin of the disk, outside of the bases of the tentacles, surrounded 

 by a single circle of bright colored, rounded tubercles. Acontia long 

 and slender, protruded from the mouth, 2indi j^erhaps from lateral pores. 



The authors of this genus give as one of its characters " pores situ- 

 ated near the border of the disk," — a character which may possibly 

 exist, but of which there is no proof. In Drayton's figures acontia 

 are represented as protruding from the mouth, which, if carelessly ob- 

 served, might appear to be figured as coming from the sides, but in 

 the description of A. primula we find it stated that "the threads pass- 



Trans. Connecticut Acad., Vol., I. 62 March, 1869. 



