TAB. IV. 

 ACTINIA equina. 



Class 6. Vermes. Order 3. Mollusca. 



Gen. Char. Body warted, fixed by the base, with 

 one terminal aperture or mouth, surrounded by 

 numerous cirrhi. 



Spec. Char. Greenish, with a rosy foramen or 

 mouth, pale rosy cirrhi, with an aperture at the 

 extremity of each. 



Syn, Actinia rufa? Gmel. v, l.p.SlSl. 



Actinia equina ? Linn. Sijst. ed. 12. v. I. p. 1088. 

 Dicqiiem. Phil. Trans, v. 63. p. 361. t. 16, 17. 

 / 10-12. 



1 HESE have been found several times of late, generally 

 after the most violent storms, by Dr. Smith of Yarmouth ; 

 who has occasionally kept them for a twelvemonth or more, 

 giving them fresh sea water every day, and feeding them 

 with oysters or muscles. Like others of ihe genus, this 

 animal forms a sort of ball when at rest — see tlie bottom 

 Jigure ; and it is curious to observe the various appearances 

 it assumes while expanding to the size of the upper figure. 

 'I'he cirrhi, being formed as it were for arms to the animal, 

 are often displayed in so deliberate a manner that it would 

 seem to have very little sensibility, were it not often very quick 

 in drawing them in when disturbed. When touched at the 



