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by the color. The tentacles are brighter or paler red than the body 
and usually plain in color; lips bright red or carmine. 
This species is viviparous. The young when born have well 
formed tentacles and basal disk, and are red; some have 24 or 36 
tentacles and are up to 5™™ or more in diameter. 
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Figure 110.—Actinia bermudensis, disk ; m, mouth with portion of stomodeum 
everted ; a, b, gonidial grooves. 
Figure 111.—Actinia bermudensis, about nat. size; 6, blue acrorhagi. By A. 
lalg WK 
Var. prunicolor, noy. Prune-colored Anemone. 
A peculiar color-variety, or possibly a distinct species, was found 
at Castle Harbor and Elbow Bay, March, 1901, by A. H. Verrill, 
who made very good colored drawings of it. The body was uni- 
form dark purple, prune-color or plum-color. The tentacles, which 
were longer than the diameter of the disk, were a paler tint of the 
same, or pale carmine with lighter tips, and with a small white 
stripe on each side of the base ; lips vermillion. 
Tentacles do not differ much in length and form about three mar- 
ginal rows. No acrorhagi were observed in life ; they were prob- 
ably inconspicuous in size or color. Height of column, 1.25 inches ; 
diameter, 1 inch ; length of tentacles, 1 inch. 
This agrees pretty closely with the colored figure of Diéplactis 
bermudensis McMur. from the Bahamas (op. cit., 1896, pl. xvii, p. 3). 
Actinia melanaster Verrill. Dark-stai Anemone. Figure 112. 
Trans. Conn. Acad., xi, p. 51, pl. vi, figs. 2, 8, 1901. 
This is a rather rare species, usually found sheltered in deep 
crevices of the reefs and ledges. It expands to about two inches 
