PLATE XLIV. 



ANTHEA CEREUS, p. 240. The figures are of the natural size. 

 Fig. 1 is engraved from a beautiful drawing for which 

 I am indebted to the liberality of A. H. Hassall, Esq. 

 Figs. 2 and 3 are from drawings of W. P. Cocks, 

 Esq., and represent one of the varieties of the species. 



*** When speaking of the urticating property of the Helianthoida, p. 188, I 

 accidentally omitted the observations of Professor Allman on the Anthea cereus. He 

 writes me" If one of these animals, when recently taken out of the water, be placed 

 with the tentacula in contact with the human skin, and allowed to remain there for 

 a few seconds, a smarting pain will be immediately experienced, and the surface of 

 the skin which had been touched by the zoophyte will exhibit an inflammatory blush, 

 which will be speedily followed by a most powerful urticaria-like eruption with a 

 sense of burning and tingling, which will sometimes last for more than an hour. 

 The symptoms are far more severe than anything I have experienced from the 

 stinging powers of the Acalepha. I have frequently tested this curious property of 

 Anthea, not only on myself but on others, and with animals taken from diiferent 

 localities." 



