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higher than broad, smooth ; the margin with small, low, 

 rounded prominences between the radiating internal 

 lamellae. Tentacles very unequal, those of various 

 lengths somewhat intermixed ; the inner ones very long 

 and slender, moderately long and stout when partially 

 contracted in alcohol ; marginal tentacles much smaller, 

 and shorter. 



Body about .25 of an inch high and broad; length of 

 inner tentacles .6 to .7 of an inch. 



Color brownish. Smaller specimens bluish brown ; col- 

 umn white. 



Port Lloyd, Bonin Islands, attached in great numbers 

 to coral branches, in one fathom, October, 1854. Dr. 

 Wm. Stimpson. 



The tentacles are represented as too nearly equal, in 

 the figure of this species. 



PARANTHEA ARMATA Verrill, sp. nov. 



Body very small in proportion to the size of the tenta- 

 cles which frequently cover and entirely conceal it. 

 Tentacles in about two or three confused rows ; inner 

 ones longer and larger, about twenty-four in number, 

 prominent, twelve of them nearest the mouth and erect. 



Color of body light cabbage-red ; inner tentacles 

 streaked with white at their inner bases. 



Ly-ce-moon Passage, Hong Kong, attached to the 

 branches of a large dead Gorgonia, in twenty-five fath- 

 oms, rocks, March, 1855. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



COMACTIS FLAGELLIFERA E. and H., op. cit. p. 236. 



Actinia flagellifera Drayton, in Dana, Zoophytes, Expl. Exp. p. 126, 

 Plate 1, fig. 1, 1846. 



Funchal Bay, Madeira, on rocks in the fourth division 

 of the littoral zone ; often on small boulders exposed to 

 the surf, July, 1853. Dr. Wm. Stimpson. 



The alcoholic specimens have the very numerous, sub- 

 equal, crowded tentacles contracted to a stout, tapering 

 form, about .25 of an inch long and with a very distinct 



