ASTR^EACEA. BVNODIDjE. 



THE MAEIGOLD WAETLET. 



Tealia digitata. 

 Plate VI. Fig. 10. 



Specific Character. Warts unequal j stomach and warts red ; tentacles 

 not banded. 



Actinia digitata. Muller, Zool. Dan. iv. 16; pi. exxxiii. Alder, Zooph. 



of Northumberland and Durham, ii. 

 Cerent digitatus. Milne Edwards, Corall. i. 272. 

 Tealia digitata. Gosse, Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3, i. 417. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Form. 



Ease. Adhering to shells, often exceeding the column ; outline undulate. 



Column. Cylindrical, about as high as wide, sometimes dilated and 

 overarching above. Margin smooth, parapeted. Surface studded with 

 large warts, having a tendency to form transverse rows, but with no 

 perpendicular arrangement. " A row of larger warts is usually found on 

 the upper part, which, when the tentacles are withdrawn, form a tuber- 

 culated margin to the aperfoire." (J. A.) 



Disk. Flat, often partly everted and overarching. Radii strongly 

 marked. 



Tentacles. Numerous, in three or four rows, stoutly conical, bluntly 

 pointed, the first row largest, diminishing to the outmost, which are papil- 

 lary : carried arching outwards. 



Mouth. Throat evertile, strongly ribbed. 



Colour. 



Column. Scarlet-orange, with paler warts. 



Disk. Dull red. 



Tentacles. Dull red, unbanded, a little deeper towards the tip. 



Mouth. Ribs of throat brownish-orange. 



