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JHtk. White or yellowish white, pellucid. 



Tentacks. White or yellowish white, pellucid, marked with three 

 remote rings of scarlet, and, on the lower half of their front face, with 

 two parallel stripes of the same hue, running longitudinally to the foot, 

 sometimes confluent throughout or in part. These lateral stripes vary 

 much in distinctness and size even in the tentacles of the same indi- 

 vidual; occasionally they run in upon the radii, and at times they are 

 quite obsolete. 



Mouth. Edge of lip rich scarlet, " like the nectary of the Hoop-petti- 

 coat Narcissus;" the colour sharply defined without, but within blending 

 off quickly into the throat, which is white and strongly furrowed. Interior 

 of gonidial tubercles scarlet. 



Size. 



Column. Two inches and a half in height, and the same in diameter ; 

 flower about three inches in expanse. 



Locality. 

 All round the Scottish coasts, in deep water. 



Varieties. 



a. Lychnucha. The condition just described. 



/8. Incensa. The red of the column predominant and almost wholly 

 confluent, interrupted merely by a few yellow flakes. 



y. Extincta. Column and disk pure white ; lip faintly tinged with red ; 

 tentacles having the usual scarlet bars and the scarlet foot-lines : the latter 

 faint but distinct, and running in far upon the radii. 



S. Pyriglotta. Colours nearly as a ; but remarkable for its large size, 

 and the short thick-set form of the tentacles, which give it a considerable 

 resemblance to TecUia crassicornis. 



In the month of January, 1857, I was favoured with a 

 communication from Miss Church of Glasgow, containing 

 descriptions and figures of this showy and undescribed 

 species, a specimen of which she had procured in Loch 

 Long, in the previous summer. It had been brought up 

 in the meshes of a turbot net. Its brilliant hues, and their 

 flaked arrangement, the protean variability of its shape, 

 and its vivacity, attracted her notice, as did also the fact 

 that it discharged a multitude of globular ova, of the size 

 of mustard-seed, and of a rich scarlet hue. 



