148 ZOOPHYTES. 



The body, when contracted, is pyriform. The general colour of 

 the exterior is a dusky gray or ash, with small tubercles of a pale 

 blue, arranged in a regular series, with undulating longitudinal lines 

 or wrinkles between. The disk scarcely extends beyond the body, 

 and is irregularly indented. The two ranges of adhering tentacles 

 have a pale yellow colour, faintly tipped with light carmine or rose, 

 and wholly disappear on contraction. Only three individuals of this 

 species were found, and these were adhering to a Buccinum. 

 J. P. COUTHOUY. 



ACTINIA CURTA. (Dray ton] 



A. pumila, valde depressa, 6-8'" lata et viz l'" alta, basi dilatata et 

 lobata, sed disco vix dilatato; tentaculis subcequis,3'" longis,2-seriatis, 

 subvalidis. 



Small, very much depressed, 6 to 8 lines broad, and scarcely l lines 

 high, dilated at base and lobed, but disk scarcely at all spreading ; 

 tentacles subequal, 3 lines long, in 2 series, rather stout. 



Plate 4, fig. 36, animal natural size ; a, upper view of the same. 



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



Only two specimens of this curious Actinia were found. One in 

 a dead shell of Cyprsea Leonida, and the other, inside of an empty 

 shell of Purpura neritoidea. The colour of the body is green, 

 clouded with dark brown ; the dilated part of the base is rich blue; 

 the tentacles yellowish-green, darker at base, and the disk ochreous 

 yellow. The mouth is a little prominent and elliptical. J. P. 

 COUTHOUY. 



II. TENTACCLIS EXTERNIS VALDE MINOHIBUS. 



ACTINIA RHODORA. (Couthouy.) 



A. subhemispherica, l" crassa, extus levis, basi dilatata et parce lobata; 

 tentaculis subulatis, 3-seriatis, internis 1" longis, externis vix ", sub- 

 validis, ore turgido valdegue eminente, 6-partito. 



