162 Mr. A. E. Verrill on new Sjjecies of Actinians. 



the length of at least 15 feet in large specimens, capable of 

 contracting to a length of less than six inches, about 80 or 90 

 in number, arranged in a nearly regular circle, one to each of 

 the marginal scollops, except those of the eye-bearing lobes ; 

 double edge neatly scolloped, frilled and minutely crenulated. 



Disk transparent, the radiating tubes light brownisli yellow, 

 the central area marked interiorly with lines of light orange, 

 enclosing large, irregularly polygonal areas, below which the 

 lobes of the actinostome show through, giving a yellow centre 

 about three inches in diameter; outside of this the ovarian 

 lobes, which are light broAvnish yellow, show through the disk 

 and extend at times nearly to its margin. They are grouped 

 somewhat into four divisions, and float about variously as the 

 animal moves. Eyes pearl-white. Tentacles transparent, the 

 complex edge flake-white. Actinal folds lemon-yellow or light 

 buff'. Lobes of the reproductive organs either yellowish white 

 or brownish yellow, with darker borders of yellowish brown or 

 orange-brown. Phosphorescent with white light. Diameter 

 of largest specimen 18 inches ; length of tentacles 15 feet or 

 more, in extension. Another specimen was 10 inches in dia- 

 meter; disk at centre 1'5 inch thick; largest marginal lobes 

 1'25 long, smallest '75; actinal appendages 8-10 inches long; 

 ovaries hang down 4 inches from disk ; tentacles 12 feet long. 



Eastport Harbour, swimming near the surface at noon ; 

 three specimens observed, one preserved in the museum of 

 Yale College. 



Edwardsia elegans, Verrill, sp. nov. 



Body elongated, slender ; epidermis thick, light yellowish 

 brown, with entangled mud, the upper edge slightly free and 

 prominent. Tentacles 16, slender, variously curved and en- 

 twined, pale flesh-colour, with a central longitudinal line of 

 light orange-red ; naked part below the disk pale pink, with 

 longitudinal white lines corresponding with the internal 

 lamellffi ; mouth light yellowish ; disk pale flesh-colour. 



Eastport, Me., at low water under stones, rare ; also on In- 

 dian Island, N. B. 



Edioardsia farinacettj Verrill, sp. nov. 

 Body small, changeable in form, not very slender, often 

 swollen in the middle or near the base, tapering upward; 

 epidermis firm, dark yellowish, covered with small, firmly 

 adherent grains of sand, the internal lamellae showing through 

 faintly, but becoming more distinct on the naked, ti-ansparent, 

 proti'uded basal portion, which is marked by 12 con-esponding 

 whitish sulcations, meeting at the end and alternating with 

 some finer lines. Upper part of column transparent and naked 



