224 ANTHOZOA HELIANTHOIDA. 



15. A. MONILE, " with a cylindrical lody of a light cinereous 

 green, marked with from 14 to 16 lines of lead-like tubercles ; 

 the circumference of the disc is also striated, and with a single 

 range of variegated tentacula" J. Templeton. 



Actinia monile, Templeton in Loud. Mag. N. Hist. ix. 303, fig. 49. 

 Fig. 51. 



Hah. " Rare : a few specimens were found on the shore of 

 Belfast Lough, near Holywood, April, 1803," J. Templeton. 



" They were, when contracted, scarcely larger than a pea, and had 

 only ten tentacula. Perhaps the young of a larger species." J. 

 Templeton. 



16. A. COBIACEA, lody conoid, orange- coloured, blotched, 

 rough with large perforated warts ; tentacula numerous, in 

 three or four series, shorter than the diameter of the disc, thick, 

 annulated, with coloured rings ; rim of tlie oral disc circular 

 and even. 



PLATE XXXIX. Fig. 1, 2. 



L'Actinie coriace, Cuv. Reg. Anim. iii. 291. Actinia coriacea, Rapp Polyp. 51. 

 tab. 1, fig. 3, 4. Tecde in Trans. Leeds Soc. i. 91, pi. 9, 10, and 11. Act. 

 senilis, Flem. Brit. Anim. 498. Act. gemmacea, var. /3. Johns. Brit. Zooph. 213, 

 pi. 27. Couch Corn. Faun. iii. 76. Cribrina coriacea, Eltrenb. Corall. 40. Act. 

 digitata ? Mull. Zool. Dan. iv. 16, tab. 133. 



Hal. Between tide-marks, buried in crevices of rocks and in 

 sand, common. " Generally located in a sandy situation in crevices 

 between shelving rocks, or under a projecting portion of rock in a 

 sheltered situation with a sandy bottom," W. P. Cocks. 



Body conoid or semi-globose, with a circular base about two 

 inches in diameter, variously coloured, usually dull red, blotched with 

 green ; skin opake and coriaceous, covered with numerous pale sub- 

 diaphanous warts, often so close together that they appear irregular, 



