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L, — THE STEUCTUEE AND HABITS OF PEACHIA HAS- 

 TATA (GOSSE), Part I. By ALFEED C. HADDON, 

 M. A., Professor of Zoology, Eoyal College of Science; and 

 GEO. Y. DIXON, M.A. (Plates XVL, XVII., and XVIII.) 



(Eead, December 15, 1884.) 



Peachia hastata (Cfosse). 



Actinia cylindrica, 

 Peachia hastata, 



Siphminrfi')7ia, 



Historical. 



Eeid, 1848, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., n.s., i., 



p. 34, PI. {non Eenier). 

 Gosse, 1855, Tram. Linn. Soc, xxi., p. 267, 



PI. XXVIII. 

 Gosse, 1855, Man. Marine Zool., i., p. 31, 



fig. 46. 

 Milne -Edwards, 1857, Hist. Nat. des Coral- 



liaires, i., p. 287. 

 Gosse, 1858, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 



i., p. 418. 

 Holdsworth, 1859, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 



ser. 3, iii., p. 78. 

 Gosse, 1860, Actinologia Britannica, p. 235, 



PI. VIII., fig. 3, and woodcut. 

 Hincks, 1861, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 



viii., p. 363. 

 Dana, 1872, Corals and Coral Islands, p. 25 



and p. 26, fig. 1. 

 M'Intosh, 1874, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, 



xiii., p. 220, 

 Faurot, 1884, ComjJtes rendiis, xcviii. No. 



12, p. 756. 

 Andres, 1884, Die Actinien, Fauna u. Fl., 



d. Golfes, V. Neapel, ix., p. 110. 



This remarkable species has hitherto only been recorded from 

 Torbay (S. Devon), " at extreme low water, and thence down- 

 wards, buried in sand" — Gosse; from St. Andrew's Bay (Fife) — 

 Beid ; " thrown ashore on ths West Sands after storms in great 



