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Colour.—Column, red-lead colour below, passing into creamy 
yellow above; underside of capitulum gray, with pale suckers; 
(a) dise and tentacles olive brown; mouth green; tentacles with 
a greenish contour, and tipped mae magenta ; () dise gray ; 
tentacles dark gray, with a buff sheen. 
Dimensions—Height of column, 150 mm.; ee 44 mm. ; 
diameter of corona, 177 mm.; length of tentacles, 45 mm. 
Habitat.—On reefs at Mabuiag and Mer. 
We name this species after a lezendary hero of Torres Straits 
who migrated from Moa (a neighbouring island to Mabuiag) to 
Mer ; the main hill of the latter island still bears his name. 
Condylactis Ramsayi, n. sp. 
Form.—Column, soft, about as high as broad, terminating 
above in a well-marked parapet, but without marginal spherules or 
suckers ; disc, flat, considerably wider than the column, can be 
slowly but completely retracted; mouth, circular, with a variable 
number of gonidial grooves (2-7) ; tentacles, numerous, relatively 
short, about one-third of the diameter of the disc. 
Colour.—Column, usually olive-brown or green, occasionally 
pale magenta, pink; disc, translucent olive-brown or cinder- 
colour; stomatodeum, whitish; tentacles, with a grayish-brown 
core and a green satin-like sheen, sometimes with a pale ring near 
the tip, or with the tip of a paler and brighter green. 
Dimensions. — Height of column, about 38mm.; diameter of 
disc, about 46mm. 
Habitat.—Reef, Waier (Murray Islands). 
We would like to associate with this species the name of Dr. H. 
P. Ramsay, the energetic Curator of the Australian Museum, 
Sydney. 
Condylactis aspera, 0D. sp. 
Form.—-Column, cylindrical, skin delicate; the whole of the 
body except the disc covered with small, very adhesive suckers, so 
that whenever touched this Actinian adheres to the foreign body 
like a Synapta; fragments of shells adhere to the body; large 
suckers occur on the upper portion of the column; mouth, elongated; 
two gonidial grooves; large tentacles in three or four cycles 
