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out the walls of the stomach, which showed the striped markings 

 exactly as described by him. The tentacles were less mucronate and 

 not so crowded as in his specimen, and altogether it approached very 

 near Tealia — so near that, as I have said, I greatly doubt if it can be 

 kept separate. I had it in a temporary aquarium for about a month, 

 during which time it remained fully expanded, and, being some five or 

 six inches across the top, presented a most beautiful appearance. 



The second anemone to be noticed is Stompkia churchm, Gosse. 

 The genus was formed by Gosse for the reception of an anemone first 

 taken at Lough Long, afterwards at Peterhead, Moray Firth, and 

 Scarborough, characterised by a column deprived of warts, a very 

 protrusile disc, retractile tentacles, and no acontia ; the mouth is 

 " often widely opened," hence the generic name, and the colouration 

 of the body is yellowish-white, flaked with scarlet. I dredged two 

 specimens of this species near the Moulditch in about twelve fathoms ; 

 they both belonged to the variety pyriglotta, which, with the typical 

 colouring, has short stout tentacles like those of Tealia. My specimens 

 further resembled that genus°in the striped colouring of the disc, which 

 was not protrusile. The gape of the mouth was nearly of the ordinary 

 dimensions. So far as my specimens were concerned, the afiinities 

 were entirely with Tealia, and but little, if at all, with Sagartia. I 

 kept one specimen alive, and apparently in perfect health, for a month. 



The third species to be noted is Adamsia paUiata, Johnst. var. 

 Rhodopis, Gosse. This peculiar anemone is found on Gasteropod 

 shells, usually selecting one inhabited by Pagurus prideaiixii ; it will, 

 however, survive for a considerable time after the hermit-crab has left. 

 I kept the specimen I obtained for a month, having removed the 

 hermit-crab from the shell on which it was perched, and at the end of 

 that time the anemone seemed quite healthy. Two years ago I 

 dredged a very fine specimen at Portrush, and being greatly struck by 

 its beauty, seen for the first time, I kept it alive during my stay at 

 Portrush, then brought it up to Dublin, and kept it in a small aquarium 

 for several months, during which time it was deprived of the society 

 of the crab with which it had previously lived. Both these specimens 

 showed the peculiarity mentioned by Gosse, of secreting a brown semi- 

 chitinous structure extending out from the mouths of the shells, which 

 were too small for them. The species appears to occur pretty widely 

 on the coasts of Great Britain, and has been found at Strangford 

 Lough and in Bantry Bay. I have now to add the localities of 

 Portrush and Greystones ; I obtained the specimen at the latter place 

 in about twelve-fathom water, a little north of the Moulditch buoy. 



The last anemone I have to notice is Atireliana heterocera (Thoms.). 

 This species was found between tide marks, near Cable Pock, by my 

 young friend Master Prederick "Wynne, the intelligent companion of 

 my dredging trips. Gosse records two localities — Weymouth Bay, 

 eight fathoms ( W. Thomson), and Crookhaven, apparently in deep water 

 (E. Perceval Wright). We made a careful search in the hope of finding 

 the species again, but failed ; however, as my informant gave me a 



