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ANTHOZOA HELIANTHOIDA. 



2. L. AURICULA, lody campanulate ; tufts of tentacula 8, 

 equidistant, with a marginal tubercle between each pair. 

 Montagu. % 



Fig. 54. 



Holothuria lagenara referens tentaculis octonis fasciculatis, Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 

 232, no. 2812. Lucernaria auricula, Fabric. Faun. Grcenl. 341. Montagu in 

 Lin. Trans, ix. 113, pi. 7, fig. 5. Flem. Brit. Anim. 499. Johnston in Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. v. 44, fig. 29 ; and in Trans. Newc. Soc. ii. 248. Templeton in Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. ix. 304. Sars Soedyr. Naturh. 34, tab. 4, fig. 1-13. Couch Zooph. Cornw. 

 35 : Corn. Faun. iii. 83, pi. 16, fig. 1-3. L. octoradiata, Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 

 474. L. auricule, Lamour. in Mem. du Mus. ii. 471. 



Hob. Coast of Devonshire, Montagu. Adheres to Fuci, near low- 

 water mark, on different parts of the coast, Fleming. 



Our figures represent this beautiful animal in its natural size. 

 The individuals from which they were drawn were of a clear pinkish 

 red colour, but Montagu says that it is "pellucid, green, brown, 

 purple, red, or yellow, and all the intermediate shades in different 

 subjects." It adheres by a short stalk, cupped in its base and varia- 

 ble in its degree of distinctness, dilating into a sort of campaniform 

 blossom, the margin of which is set round usually with eight short 

 processes or arms, each of them terminated with a globose tuft of 

 about sixty glanduliferous filaments (Fig. 55, a). The arms are 



* George Montagu, Esq., F.L.S., the author of " Testacea Britannica," and of a 

 much valued Ornithological Dictionary. His contributions to the history of inverte- 

 brate animals were also numerous, and always interesting : the best, perhaps, is his 

 Essay on Sponges in the Wernerian Memoirs. He is often styled Colonel Montagu, 

 having been for many years Lieutenant-Colonel of the Wilts Militia. He died at 

 Knowle House, his residence, near Kingsbridge, Devonshire, on June 19, 1815, in 

 the 76th year of his age (or rather, as stated in the Gentleman's Magazine, in his 

 64th year), from tetanus produced by a wound in his foot from a nail. (Annals of 

 Philosophy, vi. p. 77.) His collections are now in the British Museum. For an 

 estimate of his character see Fleming's Brit. Animals, Pref. p. x. ; and Forbes' Bri- 

 tish Star-fishes, p. 45-6 ; and for several interesting particulars, Mr. Yarrell's His- 

 tory of British Birds, i. p. 457. 





