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sharp edges, or, on the other hand, protrudes as a low cone. 

 Skin much and irregularly corrugated transversely, and also 

 longitudinally from the margin a little way downwards, thus 

 giving a decussate appearance to the upper portion. ^largin 

 distinct, but without parapet or fosse. Substance pulpy, or 

 softly fleshy, very lax. 



Disk flat, but often protruded as a low cone ; radii well 

 marked. 



Tentacles about 60, arranged in four rows, viz. 6, 6, 12, 36; 

 subequal, the inner slightly longer than the outer, conical, much 

 con'ugated in contraction ; when expanded, about equal in length 

 to half the diameter of the disk ; generally carried horizontally 

 spreading, or descending with the tips slightly up-curving. 



Mouth often widely opened ; lip sharp, protrusile, forming a 

 narrow, low, circular wall. 



Colour. Column cream-white deepening to positive yellow, 

 most irregularly sprinkled with dashes and streaks of rich scar- 

 let, very much like a flaked carnation. 



Disk white or yellowish white, pellucid. 



Tentacles 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 individual ; occasionally 

 they run in upon the radii, and at times they are quite obsolete. 



Mouth : edge of lip rich scarlet, sharply deflned without, but 

 within blending off" quickly into the throat, which is white and 

 strongly furrowed. Interior of gonidial tubercles scarlet. 



Size. Column an inch and a half in height, and the same in 

 diameter; flower about two inches in expanse. 



Locality. All round the Scottish coasts, in deep water. 

 Several specimens have been sent to me by Mr. Gregor from 

 Banff; but I had received drawings and descriptions of it pre- 

 viously from Mr. C. W. Peach, of Wick, and still earlier (about two 

 years ago) from Miss Church, of Glasgow. With the name of 

 this lady, who was the first to bring it under my notice, I have 

 honoured the species. 



Varieties : — a. Lychnucha, The condition just described. 



/3. Incensa. The red of the column predominant and almost 

 wholly confluent, interrupted merely by a few yellow flakes. 



7. Extinda. 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. 



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