THE AXXALS ><^ 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SIXTH sn:RiE.s.j 



" per litora spargite miucum, 



Naiades, et circum vitreOB conaidite fontes : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hlc carpite (lores: 

 Floribus et pictum, divee, replete canistrum. 

 At V09, o NjTnphte Craterides, ite aub undas ; 

 Ite, recurrato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite yiuacosia e rupibua, ct niihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deee pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



N.PartheniiGiannsttasi, Eel. I. 



No. 115. JULY 1897. 



I. — The Actiniarian Family Aliciidge. Bj J. E. Duerdem, 

 A.R.C.Sc. (Lond.), Curator of the Museum of the Institute 

 of Jamaica, 



[Plate I.] 



In a paper " On the Genus ^Zjcj'a," publislied in this Journal 

 (1895, XV. pp. 213-218), it was shown that an anatomical 

 study of that genus and of the genus Gystiactis demanded 

 their separation from the family Bunodidai, where they had 

 usually been placed, and the erection of a new family — 

 Aliciidse — for their reception. 



The primary investigations were carried out upon Alicia 

 costcB, Pane. {A. mirahilis, J. Y. Johnson, being the type of 

 the genus), and upon Cystiactis tuberculosa, Quoy & Gaim. 

 It was further suggested that the family might possibly 

 include other genera, such as Bunodeopsis, of which but only 

 a single species B. strumosa, Andr., was then known. 



I have since been fortunate in obtaining, through the 

 courtesy of Mr. J. Y. Johnson, of Madeira, an authentic speci- 

 men of his A. mirabilis, while removal to another hemisphere 

 has brought me into contact with a second species of the genus 

 Bunodeopsis ] further, through the help of the Naples Biolo- 



Ann.& Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 6. Vol. xx. 1 



