194 Mr. P. H. Gosse on some new British Sea- Anemones. 



Specific name. From the manner in which the edge of the 

 epidermis encircles the summit of the animal when contracted, 

 as if protected by a wall. 



Sp. 2. Phellia gausapata (mihi). Epidermis firmly adherent 

 throughout ; warted. 



General Description. — Form. (My observations on this spe- 

 cies are as yet very imperfect, and insufficient for a proper dia- 

 gnosis ; my specimen having never expanded since it came into 

 my possession, I have never seen its disk or tentacles.) Surface 

 of column smooth, but by contraction becoming coarsely corru- 

 gated, so as to present large irregularly rounded knobs or warts. 

 To this the epidermis is firmly adherent throughout, having no 

 free margin ; and being modelled on it, it is covered with coarse 

 warts or bosses. 



Acontia protruded from basal region of column, on irritation. 



Colour. Yellowish brown. 



Size. Diameter of column half an inch ; height three-fourths. 



Locality. A rock on the coast of Caithness, whence it was 

 obtained and sent to me by Mr. C. W. Peach. 



Specific name. From the gausape, or rough frieze coat, which 

 the Roman soldiers wore in cold weather. 



Fam. Bunodidae. 

 Genus Bunodes. 



Sp. 3. Bunodes coronata (mihi). Warts in lines, and in'egu- 

 larly scattered, subequal, small : body scarlet. 



General Description. — Form. Base adherent to shells, scarcely 

 exceeding column : its outline often irregularly lobulate. 



Column cylindrical in expansion, much higher than wide : 

 covered on the upper two-thirds with moderately numerous small 

 warts, neither perforate nor excavate ; they are arranged in twelve 

 longitudinal rows, with irregularly scattered ones between. Skin 

 between the warts smooth, and when distended having a satiny 

 lustre. Whole column invested with a thin drab epidermis, 

 deciduous in ragged shreds, but adhering pretty firmly. A 

 distinct parapet, with a smooth sharp edge, but no appreciable 

 fosse. 



Disk circular, flat, but often protruded so as to be convex, or 

 to form a low cone; radii distinct. 



Tentacles in four rows, of which the first contains 12; the 

 second, 12; the third, 24; the fourth, 48; =96. They are 

 submarginal, the first row springing at about three-quarter 

 radius ; they are shorter than radius, diminishing outwardly, 

 conical, subacute. 



