Hurron.—On the Sea Anemones of New Zealand. 313 
tentacles ; mouth plaited, pink inside. Tentacles in four rows, much longer 
than the disc, tapering, not perfectly retractile, of the same colour as the 
column. 
Diameter, about half an inch. 
In rock pools near Dunedin. 
In small specimens the tentacles are quite retractile. 
There is also a variety in which the column is longitudinally streaked 
with yellow. 
ActTINIADA, 
All the tentacles simple. Column imperforate, smooth. Margin of the 
disc beaded. 
Actinia, Linn. 
Column short, much expanded at both ends, the margin separated by a 
broad but shallow fosse from the tentacles. Tentacles subequal, retractile. 
Actinia (? ) thomsoni, 
Actinia thomsoni, Coughtrey, Trans. N.Z. Inst. VII., p. 280. 
Port Chalmers. 
Ihave not seen this species, and as Dr. Coughtrey has not mentioned 
any marginal beads, I doubt its being a true Actinia. 
Actinia (? ) striata. 
Actinia striata, Quoy and Gaim., Voy. Astrol., IV., p. 1 
“Small, cylindrical, elongated ; pale blue iios pem reddish ; tentacles 
numerous, acute, yellowish ; mouth brownish yellow. Height, half an inch. 
Bay of Islands.” 
I have not seen this species, and cannot say to what genus it should 
be referred. 
Phymactis, M. Edwards. 
Column with suckers, but no loop-holes ; margin of disc beaded. 
Phymactis polydactyla, sp. nov. 
Column short, cylindrical; suckers raised on warts, crowded at the upper 
part of the column, but arranged in vertical rows lower down; whitish, 
with the warts olivaceous brown. Dise circular, concave, of a deep crimson ; 
a row of round white beads round the margin. Tentacles numerous, in 
three rows, conieal, much shorter than the diameter of the dise; the 
exterior rows generally pink, the interior yellowish, or whitish, or greenish ; 
sometimes with opaque white transverse bands interiorly. 
Diameter, about one inch. 
In rock pools near Dunedin. 
Phymactis inconspicua, sp. nov, 
Column cylindrical, as long or longer than broad, with vertical rows of 
suckers on warts. Olive brown above, passing into yellowish white below; 
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