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responds most closely with the members of the genus Arremon, but 
the bill is altogether abnormal, the upper mandible swelling in the 
middle and overlapping the under, as in the genus Lanio, though 
not developed into a decided hook. But the bill is much shorter, 
broader and deeper than in the last-named genus, and has more 
general resemblance to that of some of the Saltatores. The wings 
are very short, but the only skin sent belonging to a bird in moult, 
the comparative length of the remiges cannot be determined. 
2. Description or A New Sra ANEMONE. 
By KE. W. H. Hoipsworts, F.Z.S. 
(Radiata, Pl. V.) 
The species now to be described must be separated from the true 
Actinie, and may be well placed in the genus Scolanthus, which was 
proposed by Mr. Gosse for the reception of an animal obtained by 
him at Weymouth, and which presented the very distinctive cha- 
racters of a perforated base, and the absence of a terminal adhesive 
disk. A description of that species will be found in the ‘ Annals of 
Natural History’ for the year 1853, p.157. These points of differ- 
ence are accompanied, as might be expected, by a variation in habits, 
and the members of the genus will be found living buried in mud 
or sand, into which they retire on being alarmed, their extraordi- 
nary powers of inversion enabling them to hide at some little distance 
below the surface. 
SCOLANTHUS SPHZROiDES. (PI. V.) 
This species, which I found tolerably abundant at Seaford, near 
Beachy Head, has, in expansion, the body lengthened and cylindrical, 
regularly striated longitudinally with fine transverse markings, the 
upper part sparingly covered with sucking-glands, not arranged in 
any definite order. Disk flat and even, but little exceeding the dia- 
meter of the body. Tentacula numerous, in three or four irregular 
series, the inner one containing from nine to twelve; these are the 
longest, and measure, when fully extended, about half an inch, or two- 
thirds of the breadth of the disk ; the outer row consists of from fifty 
to sixty tentacula of the same slender tapering form as the innex 
ones, but are one-third shorter, the other series being intermediate in 
size and number. The body tapers a little posteriorly and terminates 
with a rounded base, having a distinct central perforation. When 
closely contracted, the two ends of the body are nearly alike, and the 
animal assumes the appearance of a more or less flattened sphere or 
bead, the resemblance to which is much increased by the presence 
of the terminal orifices. 
The colour of the body is a dirty-white, and the upper portion is 
generally covered with particles of sand or mud adherent to the 
sucking-glands surrounding that part, and which help to conceal the 
animal when contracted, as is found to be the case with Act. crassi- 
cornis, and probably other species under similar circumstances. The 
mouth opens transversely, and from it very delicate white lines radiate 
