ACTINIAE : ACTINIA. 215 



mpplied with water and air daily, yet the tubercles and edging were 

 ibdurate, determined to keep to their original colour. I have met 

 with some individuals that had light, almost white, tentacula barred 

 with green stripes." W. P. Cocks. 



5. A. COCCINEA, "varied with white and red; tentacula 

 cylindrical and annulate" 



ACTINIA COCCINEA, "albo rubroque varia, cirris cylindricis annulatis," MuU. Zool. 

 Dan. prod. 231, no. 2792. Zool. Dan. ii. 30, tab. 63, fig. 13 ; copied in Ency- 

 clop. Method. Vers. pi. 72, fig. 13. Turt. Gmel. iv. 101. Bosc Vers. ii. 255. 

 Lam. Anim. s. Vert. iii. 68 : 2de edit. iii. 407. 



Hob. On rocks and sea-weeds. Coast of Ireland, E. Forbes. 



" Corpus cylindrico-truncatum, rubrum albedine mixtum, gla- 

 >rum ; margo superus duplici serie tentaculorum muricatus, viginti 

 quatuor in quavis numero ; hsec cylindracea, seu si mavis conica, 

 alba, annulis binis rubris distantibus cinguntur, dimidia glandis 

 liametro longitudine aequalia. Oculo armato annulis ftibtilissimis 

 xmfertis composita videntur, lineaque obscura longitudinaliter pel- 

 ucet. Glans glabra, centre fissuris perforata. Basis lutescens striis 

 a centro divergentibus inscribitur, membranaque corporis laxa et 

 varia plicata objectis affigitur. 



"Uti congeneres ope tentaculorum locum mutat, tentaculisque 

 conditis, meram membranulam rubram mentitur." Mutter. 



I formerly considered this Actinia to be the young of A. crassi- 

 cornis, but I give it now as distinct on the authority of Professor 

 E. Forbes. 



6. A. VIDUATA, grey with longitudinal white streaks ; the 

 tentacula white with a dusky streak along each side. W. 

 Thompson." 5 ' 



ACTINIA VJDUATA, "grisea, strigis longitudinalibus cirrisque albis," Mutt. Zool. 

 Dan. prod. 231, no. 2799. Zool. Dan. ii. 31, pi. 63, fig. 68 ; copied in Ency- 

 clop. Method, tab. 72, fig. 4, 5. Turt. Gmel. iv. 101. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. iii. 

 68 : 2de edit. iii. 407. Bosc Vers. ii. 256. W. Thompson in Ann. and Mag. N. 

 Hist. vii. 481. Isacmaea viduata, Ehrenb. Corall. 34. 



Hob. Between tide-marks. Miiller's specimens were found on 



* President of the Natural History and Philosophical Society of Belfast " quern 

 ob propensum in me animum merito suo plurimum diligo, qui et opus ipsum variis ob- 

 servationibus ditavit ; inque ejus editione accurandii exornandaque non minus dili- 

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