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evidence available to show whether the secondary tentacles appear on the 

 dorsal or ventral side of the ])rimary tentacles in the lateral and ventro- 

 lateral megacoeles. I am inclined to the opinion that they appear, as in 

 E. willeyana, on the ventral side, but chiefly because, if they do^ the case o£ 

 E. adenensis meets with a ready explanation. For i£, after sixteen tentacles 



Text-iigure 1. 



E lutkeni 



Faurots Actinian 

 1 J 



2 ^/ 



=/ E. mammillala 



E. -willeyana 9^ 

 E beautempsii 



^ E. rakaiyce. 



E. timid a, Dixon 



E tiTnida, GCB 



have been established in this species, tertiary mesenteries arise forming the 

 microcoeles marked .t-, x in text-fig. 1, but the tentacles corresponding to 

 these microcoeles are retarded in development, we get precisely the condition 

 described by Faurot for E. adenensis, a species which has hitherto been 

 regarded as an exception, because it has a greater number of mesenteries 



