130 ZOOPHYTES. 



lata ; tentaculis subcequis, prcelongis (If"), spar sis, fere 3-seriatis, 

 subulatis, nullis marginalibus ; ore 1' oblongo, prominente. 



Exterior papillose, at middle 2 inches broad, upper and lower extre- 

 mities very much dilated (3| inches in breadth), margin of base 

 undulate, upper margin uniseriately tuberculate; tentacles sub- 

 equal, quite long (1| inches), scattered, nearly in 3-series, subulate, 

 none marginal ; mouth an inch long, prominent. 



Plate 1, figure 3, animal natural size. 



On the rocks of the shores at Wollongong, N. S. Wales. Exp. Exp. 



Body, deep green and covered with small tubercles or papillae of 

 same colour as body ; tentacles, bright grass-green, and peculiar in 

 being situated midway between the mouth and edge of disk; disk 

 bright orange, and darker between the base of the tentacles and the 

 mouth ; somewhat in folds by the contraction of its edge, on which 

 is a row of green tubercles ; colour of mouth green ; of the opening, 

 flesh-colour. 



Another variety of this species was seen with the body a dull grass- 

 green : tentacles and disk, pale sage-green. J. DRAYTON. 



b. Tentaculis disci dimidio brevioribus. (Tentacles shorter than half the disk.) 



4. ACTINIA CLEMATIS. (Drayton.) 



A. depressa, extus pustulata, media 2" crassa, infra supraque vaMe 

 dilatata, disco latiore (4"), plicato-lobato, margine uniseriatim tuber- 

 culato, tuber culis sesquilinearibus ; tentaculis brevibus ("), validis, 

 numerosis (fere 5-seriatis), disci portione nudd dimidio latitudinis 

 angustiore ; ore oblongo ($"),prominulo. 



Depressed, exterior pustulate, at middle 2 inches broad, upper and 

 lower extremities much dilated, the upper most so and 4 inches 

 broad, with the margin lobed and uniseriately tuberculate, tubercles 

 a line and a half broad; tentacles short and rather stout, numerous 

 (nearly in 5 series), the uncovered portion of the disk less than half 

 the whole diameter; mouth oblong ( of an inch), but little pro- 

 minent. 



