Verrill, Azotes on Radiata. 493 



somewhat scattered on the disk. Color of cohimn, in alcohol, yellow- 

 ish brown ; the lateral buds or young, "white. 



Height of the largest specimens, in contraction, '4 inch ; diameter 

 of base "5 ; length of tentacles •! ; diameter of lateral buds or young 

 •01 to -08 of an inch. 



Puget Sound, — Dr. C. V>. Kennerly. 



The young borne upon the sides give this Actinian a very singular 

 ap})earance, and are very remarkable, since nothing of the kind has, 

 apparently, been previously observed. Whether they should be re- 

 garded as buds, or as o"a temporarily attached and developed in this 

 position, I am unable to determine from the preserved specimens, but 

 in either case they appear to remain attached for a considerable time 

 and probably derive nutriment from the parent. The smallest observ- 

 ed have already 6 small tentacles and a slightly prominent mouth ; 

 the greater number have 12 tentacles and a small protul)erant mouth ; 

 the largest ones are nearly all entirely contracted, l)ut apjjcar to have 

 24 tentacles, and show the internal radiating lamella^, through the walls. 

 In contraction these young are nearly hemispherical. Specimens less 

 than '25 of an inch in diameter have no young upon the sides. 



Anactis picta Klir., Corall. rotlien Meeres, p. 45, 1834. 

 Actinia picta Lesson, op. cit, p. 80, PI. 3, fig. 6, 1830. 



Column depressed, as broad as high; surface smooth, gi-een, show- 

 ing close vertical lines of darker green ; a well marked fold or '' para- 

 pet" at some distance from the tentacles, the intervening space, in the 

 figure, appearing like a part of the disk. " Tentacles short, reddish 

 brown ; upon the flat buccal disk is a reddish zone, covered with ovals 

 of orpiment-yellow, placed side by side, and touching by their base, 

 or only separated on the sides by a small reddish brown ray." 



The figure shows the appearance Avhen not fidly expanded. The 

 buccal disk is contracted and apparently concealed by the partially 

 retracted tentacles ; outside of the tentacles (?) there is a broad flat 

 area, bordered outwardly by the rounded parapet, and having a light 

 orange ground-color, ■with 1 8 radiating bands of light l)lue, increasing 

 in width outwardly, each one bordered on Ijoth sides by a row of small 

 black spots, and with a circle of similar small spots connecting them 

 together at the outer ends, just within the parapet. 



Diameter about 1 inch ; height a little less. 



Paita, Peru, not common, — Lesson. 



Tiie true characters and the position of this species are very doubtful. 

 It may belong to the SajartincB, near Nemactls Draytonii, or it may 



