THE EYED ANEMONE. 



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not formed by the edges of the septa, nor always correspondent with 

 them. 



Disk. Light red. Each radius bears two white lines, — one parallel and 

 close to each edge, but separated from its neighbour by a fine line of the 

 ground colour : this gives an appearance as if every radius were divided 

 from its fellow by a pair of white lines. Among the tentacles the colour 

 of the disk becomes a rich and brilliant orange, which colour extends 

 in short lines between the tentacles over the edge of the margin. 



Tentacles. Pellucid, colourless, with four 

 broad rings of opaque white, and a white tip : 

 the rings are obsolete on the hinder face. At 

 the foot of the front, a band of dark brown 

 divides the two lower white rings, the lowest 

 of which is succeeded by two triangular clouds 

 of dark brown. 



Mouth. The radial lines end suddenly at the 

 edge cf the mouth, which is sharp and abrupt. 

 The upper part of the throat is orange, but pre- 

 sently becomes a deep red-brown. 



Size. 



The largest I have seen is half an inch in 

 height, by about one-third of an inch in diameter 

 when expanded. 



TENTACLE 



{viewed endwise and 

 frontnrise). 



Locality. 

 The north-west coasts of Europe. Laminarian and coralline zones. 



I owe my acquaintance with this attractive little species 

 to the kindness of Mr. Charles "VV. Peach, who forwarded 

 to me, in April of the present year, four or five living 

 specimens attached to an old pecten-valve from deep water 

 off the Caithness coast. The same gentleman has since 

 favoured me with sketches of manifestly the same species, 

 which he made from the life, during his residence in 

 Cornwall. It was first described hy Miiller, in 1777, and 

 figured in his magnificent work on the animals of Den- 

 mark. Dr. Johnston included it in his second edition 

 of " British Zoophytes," on the authority of Edward 

 Forbes, who found it on the coast of Ireland, " on rocks 



