274 A, EF. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands; Coral Reefs. 
seen specimens without them, unless referable to the next species or 
subspecies by other characters. 
The disk is covered with numerous unequal radial rows of small, 
simple papillz or tubercles of various sizes, the rows corresponding 
to the tentacles of all but the outer cycles. The smaller are rounded 
and wart-like ; the larger, conical or papilliform. The column is 
smooth below, but has short rows of suckers, usually bright red in 
color, to which foreign objects adhere, on the upper part. Each 
row usually has 6 to 10 suckers in large specimens, decreasing in 
size below. The margin bears a circle of rounded acrorhagi, each 
one in line with a row of suckers. 
The ground color of the column is usually pale flesh-color, cream- 
color, or whitish, irregularly striped, streaked, on flammulated with 
carmine, rose-red, light red, or crimson, not unlike some varieties of 
striped apples ; near the upper margin it usually changes to gray ; 
verruce bright red. The disk is elegantly variegated with several 
colors ; the central part is often bright iridescent green, beyond 
which it may be variegated with lavender, russet-brown, green, yel- 
low, and flake-white, in various patterns. Frequently the ground- 
color of the disk is whitish, grayish, or yellowish green ; while the 
tubercles may be darker yellow, green, olive, or brown. The basal 
disk is usually light red. The lips may be lavender, with white 
gonidial grooves ; inside of mouth often pink. The tentacles also 
vary in colors, but usually correspond in color more or less with the 
disk ; most commonly they are greenish or olive-brown, with the 
cross bars flake-white ; the white cross-bars are often most numer- 
ous and most distinct on the outer tentacles. 
The lips have about 24 grooves on each side, besides the gonidial 
grooves, which are strongly developed. 
When expanded in their burrows, the disk spreads out into a 
broad frilled form, but it can contract very quickly when disturbed 
and retreat entirely within the burrow, though the tentacles are not 
retracted. 
It is found throughout the West Indies. , 
Subspecies formosa, nov. White-striped Anemone. Fig. 120. Pl. xxxii, fig. 2. 
Epicystis osculifera Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., x, p. 556, 1900 (perhaps not 
Les., sp.). 
This beautiful actinian grows as large as the preceding and has 
the same undulated and frilled form of the disk, and usually the 
same red-streaked colors of the column. But the tentacles, which 
