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the appearance of a beautifully ornamented pedestal. The tentacles 

 are coloured with eight or ten bands alternately white and brown. 

 The disk is dull yellow, and mouth dark flesh colour. J. DRAYTON. 



ACTINIA PRETIOSA. (Dana.} 



A. cylindrica, oblonga, l-2'" crassa, tentaculis 2-seriatis, exiguis, 2'" 

 longis, subcequis ; extus kvis, sed maculis minutis,floriformibus, quin- 

 quelobatis, remote sparsis, aliis punctiformibus ; ore prominulo, 

 oblongo. 



Cylindrical, oblong, 1 J to 2 lines in diameter ; tentacles in 2 series, 

 slender, 2 lines long, subequal ; exterior surface smooth, but here 

 and there a minute prominent spot looking like a flower with a 

 simple 5-lobed corolla, besides other scattered dots. 



Plate 3, fig. 20, animal enlarged ; a, natural size. 



The Feejee Islands, Pacific Ocean. Exp. Exp. 



This small species was found attached to a fragment of coral in 

 Sandalwood Bay, in the Feejee Group, island of Vanua-levu. It 

 may possibly be a young individual. It was nearly two-thirds of an 

 inch long when fully expanded, and part of the slender tentacles were 

 turned inward and part outward. The exterior is peculiar in having 

 distantly distributed over the surface minute rosette-like spots, as 

 exhibited in the figure. The general colour is faint flesh-tint; the 

 rosettes are rich carmine, with a white border, and look like gems 

 over the surface ; the tentacles are yellowish, with orange bases, 

 and a bright red spot within, just above the point of attachment. 



Figure 21, represents a young animal of some species of Actinia, 

 found swimming free at the Feejees. 



ACTINIA LINEOLATA. (Couthouy.) 



A. hemispherico-conica, valde depressa, \\" lata; latere kvis, verticaliter 

 brunneo-lineata ; tentaculis 24, biseriatis, 6-8'" longis, subvalidis ; 

 disco parvulo, lineis pallidis radiato ; ore parvulo, orbiculato, non 

 prominulo. 



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