426 ZOOPHYTES. 



6. PALYTHOA OCELLATA. (Ellis.) Lamouroux. 



P. mammillosse affinis, ferruginea ; potypis latere coadunatis, sed apice 

 prominentibus, 3'" latis, lateribus mgosis. 



Similar to the mammillosa, rust-coloured ; polyps united by their 

 sides, but prominent above, 3 lines broad, sides wrinkled. 



St. Domingo, West Indies. Ellis. 



Alcyonium oceUatum, Ellis and Sol., 180, Mammillifera ocettata, Blainv., Man., 330. 



tab. 1, fig. 6. Pali/thoa ocelluta, Lamour., Exp., 70, tab. 



, Lamarck, ii. 601, No. 8. 1, fig. 6. 



Sloanc's Jamaica, i., tab. 21, fig. 1. , Ehrenb., G. xiii., sp. 2. 



III. Pa-lytfwfe vix minimi mammi/losee, polypis usque ad apicem latere coadunatis. 



7. PALYTHOA GLAREOLA. (Lesueur.} Dana. 



P. polypis brevibus, latere usque ad apicem coadunatis, discis violaceis, 

 centro albidis, tentaculis 20, quorum quatuor subrubidis. 



Polyps short, and united by their sides quite to the summits, disks deep 

 violet, whitish at centre; tentacles 20, four of which are grayish-red. 



Guadaloupe, on the volcanic rocks of Pointe Noire. Lesueur. 



Corticifera glareola, Lesueur, Jour. Acad. longer, being three times as long as broad ; 



Nat. Sci. Philad., i. 178, pi. 8, figs. 6, 7. the tentacles and the centre of the disk 



, Blainville, Man., 331, pi. 50, fig. 1. are yellow; when not expanded, several 



The Corticifera flava, of Lesueur (ibid. p. lines may be observed radiating from the 



179) is described as closely resembling aperture. 



the preceding, but the animals are much 



8. PALYTHOA FLAVO-VIRIDIS. (H. $ Ehrenberg.) 



P. polypis usque ad apicem coadunatis. late flavo-viridis ; discis margi>>e 

 16-crenatis et 16-tentaculatis ; tentaculis hyalinis uniseriatis ; lamellis 

 internis 32. 



