58 SAGARTIAD^. 



Locality. 

 The south coast of England : deep -water ; low rocks. 



Varieties. 



a. Stibista. The condition above described. 



/3. Astimma. Disk dull olive-grey. Lips dull brick-red. 



I know this little Anemone only by two specimens. The 

 first (of the variety stibista) I found on an oyster in the 

 fish-market at Weymouth, in the summer of 1853. As the 

 oysters with which the market was supplied were brought 

 in by a trawler, whose fishing grounds were West Bay, 

 and the offing of Weymouth Bay, we may safely set down 

 one of these as the native locality of my little prize. 



The second specimen, which exhibited that measure of 

 diversity in colour, that I have set down as distinctive of 

 the variety astimma, but exactly agreed with the former in 

 all its other characters, and was manifestly, at the first 

 glance, of the same species, was sent me from Torquay, in 

 April, 1856, by the Be v. W. F. Short. I understand it 

 was taken at the insular rock known as the Ore Stone. 



Though less showy than the former specimen, whose 

 black-lined face and pouting scarlet lips made it very attrac- 

 tive, this latter was still very pretty ; and it proved to be 

 easily reconciled to captivity, for it remained in one of my 

 tanks, — sometimes under rather unfavourable conditions of 

 the water, — from the 10th of April, 1856, to the middle of 

 August, 1857, a period of sixteen months. Nor have I any 

 reason to believe that it would have died then, but for my 

 own carelessness ; for having taken it out of the tank to 

 examine it, I incautiously left it, after my observations, 

 exposed in a saucer to the midday beams of a hot August 

 sun, and found it, of course, killed, when I looked at it 

 again. 



