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short and slender, diminishing from the first row outwards ; in 

 ordinary extension not longer than one-fourth the diameter of 

 the disk ; generally carried arching over the margin, the tips 

 occasionally turned up. 



Mouth elevated on a strongly marked cone. 



Acontia not emitted, even under strong irritation, while in 

 my possession. INIr. Brodrick, however, has seen them projected 

 from the mouth. They were very slender. 



Colour. Column : exposed portion pellucid white, with the 

 low warts opake white. 



Epidermis ochreous drab, slightly darker in some parts, with 

 longitudinal white lines proceeding from the base, and vanishing 

 a little way up. Central star of button formed of alternate 

 whitish and blackish rays. 



Disk drab : each primary and secondary radius marked with 

 two parallel lines of dark chocolate-brown ; each tertiary radius 

 similarly but more faintly marked, and the space enclosed is in 

 these latter radii drab on their outer and white on their inner 

 moiety, the divisions of the two colours being marked by a black 

 spot. The space mimediately bounding the foot of each primary 

 tentacle dark brown. 



Tentacles pellucid whitish ; the lower half opake white on the 

 front, crossed by four transverse bars of dusky, the whole (ex- 

 cept the lowest one) being connected by three longitudinal lines 

 of the same colour, which impart a latticed or window-like 

 pattern to the tentacle. 



Mouth : lip white ; throat white, with black furrows. 



Size. Diameter of base about seven- eighths of an inch, of 

 extended column half an inch, of flower from one-third of an inch 

 to an inch; height one inch. 



Locality. Lundy Island, on rocks at low water. 



Specific name. After William Brodrick, Esq., of Ilfracombe, 

 who kindly favoured me with one of two specimens obtained in 

 August 1857. 



Fani. Bunodidse. 



Genus HoRMATHiA (mihi). 



Base adherent to shells, greatly expanded. 



Column pillar-like, much corrugated, surrounded by a single 

 horizontal series of warts. Name from opyu-a^o?, a necklace of 

 pearls. 



Sp. 2. Hormathia Margarita (mihi). Specific character. 

 White, with purple tentacles. 



General Description. — Eorm. Base very closely adherent to a 



