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the warts brown, often pale-centred. Disc round, concave, olive brown, 
sometimes marked with grey, marginal row of beads white. 
Tentacles moderate, nearly or quite equal to the diameter of the disc, 
quite retractile; olive brown margined with white, and often white-spotted. 
Diameter about :3 of an inch. 
In rock pools near Dunedin, abundant. 
In some the warts are obsolete near the base, owing to the animal 
having lived in a narrow crack in the rocks. There is also a variety in 
which the tentacles are purplish grey, and the dise even is sometimes the 
same colour. 
Mmyadida. 
Base not adherent; lower extremity enclosing an air-chamber. Floating 
on the ocean. 
Minyas, Cuvier. 
Tentacles simple ; column warty. 
Minyas (?) viridula. 
Actinia viridula, Quoy and Gaim., Voy. Astrol., IV., p. 161., pl. 18, f. 15-21. 
Minyas ? viridula, M.Ed., Corall. L, p. 229. 
Shape variable, discoid or elongated, longitudinally ribbed. Ribs 
twenty, tuberculated, and with a median row of white suckers. Mouth 
plicated. Greenish, mixed with bistre upon the ribs, and of a deeper green 
in the intervals. | 
Pacific Ocean, between New Zealand and the Friendly Islands. 
ArT. XXXIIL —Catalogue of the hitherto described Worms of New Zealand. 
By Prof. F. W. Hvrrox. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 10th January 1879.) 
Class TURBELLARIA. 
Unjointed, ciliated, leaf- or ribbon-like worms. 
Order Ruaspocena. 
Intestine a simple pouch ; pharynx protrusible or not; usually one sex- 
Meum Genus Chonostomum, Schmarda. 
Mouth central; pharynx infundibuliform ; eyes two. 
C. cRENULATUM, Schmarda, Neue Wirbelloser Thiere (1861). 
Body oblong, subrounded, green. The two eyes purple.  Pharynx 
infundibuliform, margin crenulated. Penis cirriform. 
In still fresh water near Auckland. 
Order Denproceata.* 
_ Intestine tree-like, aproctous; pharynx protrusible; body broad and 
flat; sex-openings double. 
