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purplish tint, and the tentacles are yellow. It is near the primula, 

 but the vertical lines are more distant, and the margin of the disk is 

 not tuberculate. J. DRAYTON. 



, ACTINIA RUBUS. (Dray ton.) 



A. pumila, 9'" alta, extus levis; infra, supraque dilatata (fere 1" lata), 

 basi crenata, crenaturis 1'" lata, lateribusque lineis verticalibus scepe 

 interruptis notata ; tentaculis brevibus (2J'"), 2-seriatis; ore promi- 

 nulo,fere *" oblong o. 



Small. | of an inch high, exterior smooth ; upper and lower extre- 

 mities dilated (nearly an inch broad), base crenated, and crenatures 

 a line broad, sides marked with vertical interrupted lines ; tentacles 

 short (2 lines in length), in 2 series ; mouth a little prominent, 

 nearly a sixth of an inch long. 



Plate 4, fig. 34, animal natural size ; a, same, contracted. 



Valparaiso, Chili. Exp. Exp. 



The colour of the body is ash-brown, marked vertically with 

 slate-coloured dotted lines. The tentacles are white; disk rich 

 purple ; mouth the same, except at the opening, which is whitish. 

 J. DRAYTON. 



ACTINIA GEMMA. (Dray ton.) 



A. pumila, subcylindrica, %" crassa, extus tuberculata, tuberculis con- 

 tiguis ; disco vix dilatato ; tentaculis brevibus (2J'"), 2-seriatis, sub- 

 exiguis : contractd, pyriformi. 



Small, nearly cylindrical, an inch thick, exterior with contiguous 

 tubercles ; disk scarcely at all dilated ; tentacles short (2 lines 

 long), in 2 series, rather slender ; animal, when contracted, pyri- 

 form. 



Plate 4, fig. 35, the expanded animal, natural size; a, the same 

 contracted. 



False Bay, Porto Praya, Cape de Verdes. Exp. Exp. 



