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ravishino- with Ccarnation tentacles barred with white. Here 

 is a tiny Actinia nivea. Here are three of a species new 

 to me. They stand an inch and a half in height, with a 

 tendency to elongate themselves still further. They have 

 but one row of tentacles, not retractile ; and their white 

 bodies are encircled with rows of reddish spots, some small, 

 others much larger, the latter surrounded vnth a ring of 

 white. The colour of their tentacles is dark green, spotted 

 with brown. They most resemble the Anemone which is 

 found, I believe, in Weymouth Bay, of which I have one 

 exquisite specimen — translucent white spotted with red, the 

 spots crowding towards the base ; the tentacles pure white, 

 with a brilliant apple-green streak running down on either 

 side, and passing over the oral disk to the delicate pink 

 mouth. Here is another novelty, in size about one-fourth of 

 an inch in diameter, the body delicate French grey with 

 white strips, and tentacles of pure white. And here is that 

 lovely Lamp-Polype, Lucernaria, with its little knobbed 

 tentacles contracting and expanding. 



Let us pass with a mere glance at those Eolids, old acquaint- 

 ances, and at that solitary Ascidian, passing his existence in 

 the somewhat monotonous opening and shutting of his two 

 orifices (the only visible sign of life he gives), to pause for a 

 moment over the Echinoderms. There a Goniaster is clinging 

 to a bit of stone ; and there two Comatuke (Plate VI., fig. 2) 

 expand their feathery charms ; a single Sea-urchin crawls 

 up the side of the dish, and a lovely Bnttle-star wriggles at 

 the bottom. To look at this brittle-star you would never 

 imagine how sensitively alive he is to insult. Place but a finger 



