464 ZOOPHYTES. 



?mi}n, except in colour. This latter species is, as Dr. Johnston states of 

 England (Brit. Zoop., p. 212, 1st edit.), of all the respective colours in 

 summer that they are in winter. 



A. coccinea, Miill. 

 West coast of Ireland, Prof. Forbes. 



A. hellis, Ellis. 



I have taken this beautiful species in Ballyholme Bay, Co. Down. It 

 is admirably represented by Gaertner in Phil. Trans., vol. lii. tab. 16, f. 2, A. 

 W. T. 



" Island of Rathlin, August, \7^o" Templeton. 



A. gemmacea, Temp. 



Vide Templeton in j\Iag. Nat. History, vol. ix. I can add nothing to this 

 but that very large examples, 3 inches in diameter, are occasionally taken 

 with the dredge in deep water on the coasts of Down and Antrim. 



Dec, 1842. — A corked quart bottle, with only a small bit broken out of 

 the side, Avas found to-day in the stomach of a cod in Belfast market, and 

 brought to me by a trustworthy fish-vender who " extracted" it. The 

 peculiar mucus indeed with which the bottle was invested sufficiently de- 

 noted its late " whereabouts." AVere the cod sold by weight here (which 

 it is not) it might be supjjosed that the bottle had been introduced dis- 

 honestly to add to the profit of the salesman. However, if the fish did 

 swallow the bottle, its magnet of attraction was evident, in the shape of a 

 a large Actinia, apparently of this species, which was based on the glass 

 to Avhich it still closely adhered. Its base was very irregular in shape, 

 and occupied about 3 inches in diameter. The entire surface of the Ac- 

 tinia was smooth. The bottle had been a very short time in the stomach of 

 the fish, as some of the Setyula on it were still alive. W. T. Springvale, 

 Down, July 16, 1846.— I saw one on the beach between tide-marks, as I 

 have done between Ballyholme Bay and Groomsport ; the body was deep 

 red ; the tentacula beautifully annulated with pale red and hyaline alter- 

 nating. Oct. 3, 1846. — A small specimen cbedged, adherent to a stone 

 from upwards of 20 fathoms, about the entrance to Belfast Bay ; colour 

 delicate orange red ; tentacula ringed with same colour and hyaline. 

 Among the Zoojihytes obtained on the same occasion, are Sertularia tama- 

 risca, Catnpatiulai'ia verticillata, Cellejiora ramulosa. 



A. dianthus, Ellis. 



Belfast Bay, Dr. Drummond ; Edm, Getty, Esq., Strangford Lough, 

 W. T. Amongst the various forms it assumes, I have seen this species 

 present the exact appearance of the Act. plumosa of the Zoologia Danica. 

 Mr. Templeton marks it with doubt as Irish. 



April 22, 1848. — A fine specimen of this — or rather than A. dianthus, 

 Johnst., precisely of A. plumosa, Miill. Z. D., vol. iii. p. 12, t. 88, f. 1, 2 — • 

 dredged yesterday by E. Getty, Esq., in Belfast Bay, was brought me 

 alive. It adhered to a large 3Iodiola vulgaris, and was when fully ex- 

 panded about 4 inches in length. It is of a rich creamy flesh-colour, and 

 was vigorously alive after being 48 hours out of the water, when I put it 

 in spirits. 



