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Colour. 



Column — Upper half varying from buff to an orange-brown ; 

 lower half paler, and sometimes marked with whitish longitudinal 

 lines, which fade away as they ascend ; suckers whitish. 



Disk — Pellucid orange, without markings. 



Tentacles — Pure, opaque, white ; without markings, except 

 that the colour is sometimes pellucid at the foot and at the tip. 

 The tentacles of the outer row have sometimes an orange core. 



Mouth — Buff to brick-red ; ridges of throat white. 



Dimensions. 



Diameter of column may reach one inch. 

 Diameter of expanded disk and tentacles may reach one inch 

 and a-half ; the total height may reach two inches. 



Distribution. 



Sagartia venusta has been recorded as found in the following 

 localities : — 



South-ioest Coast of England : — 



Torquay, P. H. Gosse. 



Clovelly, Charles Kingsley (on oysters from 



deep water). 



Morte stone, George Tugwell. 



Lundy, George Tugwell. 



Coast of Wales : — 



Tenby, P. H. Gosse. 



St. Gowan's Head, . . . P. H. Gosse. 



Puffin Island, . . . . E. L. Williams. 



East Coast of Ireland : — 



Belfast, 0. Bosanquet. 



Monkstown, Co. Dublin, . H. W. Mackintosh. 



Dalkey Island, . . . . G. T. Dixon ( under sides of 



loosely-piled granite boulders). 

 South Coast of Ireland : — 



Youghal, J. E. Greene. 



