164 CATALOGUE OF ADDITIONS TO, AND ALTERATIONS 



Genus, Corynactis. — Allman. 



1 — CoEYNACTrs ViEiDis. Plate 9. fig. 1-5, p. 288, Gosse. 



'" This very pretty species Professor Allman first figured from 

 Ireland, in 1843. I got it at Grorran Haven, Cornwall, and 

 added it to the Cornish list. Figured it in 1852, in Pep. Roy. 

 In. Corn , pi. A, figs. 1-10. It occui-s often in large colonies on 

 rocks, both in shore and deep water. I found a small specimen 

 on the root of tangle, off the Black Skerry, Island of Stroma, 

 Caithness, N.B. They live well in an aquarium. (C.W.P.) 



Gosse' s beautiful work was published in 1860. By this time, 

 in all probability, more species of Sea Anemones have been 

 found in Cornwall ; if so, unfortunately I have no work to refer 

 to, and so must leave others to do what I would willingly, if in 

 my power. I think it right, however, to mention that a splendid 

 one was discovered by the Pev. D. P. Alford, M,A., in the Scilly 

 Islands, under stones, and is described by Mr. Gosse in the 

 "Magazine of Natural History," pi. 7, series 3, vol. 16, as 

 Egeon Alfordi, Gosse. It is a splendid one, and "when fully 

 expanded is at times four inches high, by one and a half -inch in 

 diameter, expanse of flower six inches." Colour pea-green with 

 purplish hue, &c. ; is a most graceful animal. The Rev. Mr. 

 Alford, when I visited Penzance in 1869, kindly sent me a living 

 one. This I was enabled to study during my stay there, and was 

 much interested in it. I mention it here in' the hope that it will 

 soon be found iji Cornwall. (C.W.P.) 



Class III.— POLYZOA.— /. F. Thompson. 



Suh.- Order 1. — Cheilostomata. — Busk. Family I. — Aeteid^. 



Genus, Aetea, Lamouroux, 



Aetea 'Rs.cTA.—IIinch. 



Hippothoa SrcA. — Couch, Corn., Paun., 102, plate xix, fig. 9, 

 Johnston, B.Z. Ed. 2, 292. 



Aetka Uecta Hindis, Devon and Corn. Cat. N.H., Series 3 

 ix, 25, plate vii, fig. 3, 



Plentiful on the Cornish Coast. (R.Q.C ) On old shells off 

 the Deadman. (C.W.P.) 



