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the edge of the disk, and of moderate thickness ; oral di-k much 

 expanded. 



Art i nia be! I is. 



CC. Boihj wit hunt glandular wart*, and urith pores/br the 

 passage of thread-cells, 



Actiniloba, Blainv. 



Skin soft, disk very large. Tentacles very numerous, short, vary- 

 ing but little in length, and forming a thick filamentOlU fringe ; 



margin of disk lobeil. 

 Actinia dianthus. 



Sagartia, Gosse. 



Skin coriaceous, occasionally wrinkled, firm to the touch. Ten- 

 tacles numerous, not particularly long, retractile, having gnat power 

 of elongation. Base broad and circular. Body cylindrical. Pores 

 situated near the base, and varying iu size. Parasitic. 



Actinia parasitica. 



Adamsia, Forbes. 



Skin soft. Tentacles scarcely retractile, short. Base when young 

 circular, afterwards expanding laterally until the extreme points 

 meet, and form a circle. Disk circular or oblong, according to 

 the form of the base. Base secreting a horny membrane. Body 

 much depressed, not cylindrical. 



Adamsia palliata. 



March 23, 1858. 



Dr. Gray, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



Mr. Gould exhibited and described a new species of Toucan which 

 he had recently received from P ro fess or Jameson of Quito. He re- 

 marked that it belonged to that division of the Roup to which be 

 had applied the generic term of dndigena, and that it was most in- 

 timately allied to the ./. nigrirostris, but differed from that species 



in the bill being shorter, broader, and liiueli DOOTC rOVUSt, and co- 

 loured with obscure brownish red at the base of the upper mandible, 



For this new species he proposed the name of 



Anum.i n I -iMi.nitin n< H I 



Crown Of the head and hack of the neck BJOSBJ black; hack. 



wing-corertfl and margins of the primaries dull sienna-brown 

 condaries bluish brown; nppertafl-eofcrti bine itronsdj tinged with 



