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that of its photographic portrait. The tentacles would also be of a much more 
elongate contour. 
Discosoma Haddoni, the second species of giant Australian anemone discovered 
by the writer on the Queensland coast, is chiefly distinguished from the preceding 
type by the circumstance that its tentacles are spherical, except for their attachment 
by a short cylindrical footstalk. This feature communicates to the expanded disc 
the appearance of being, as it were, bestrewn with beads. Examples of this bead- 
tentacled species of Discosoma were met with as far South as Shark’s Bay, on the 
Western Australian coast, and were there also accompanied by a commensal species 
of Amphiprion altogether distinct from the orange-red fish with two white bands_ 
previously observed consorting with this anemone in Queensland. The Shark’s Bay 
fish had three white bands, the centre of which was continued over the upper margin 
of the second dorsal fin. The caudal and pectoral fins, and also the lips and _ irids, 
were lemon-yellow ; otherwise the body and remainder of the fins were almost black. 
It will probably prove to be a new species. The colours of these two giant 
Discosome were found to vary considerably. A dominant tint of the tentacles of the 
species last referred to was a bright apple-green, or this tint mixed more or less with 
lilac grey on a fawn-coloured disc. These hues were observed to prevail in examples 
collected in both Shark’s Bay and Torres Straits. In no instance, however, was the 
subulate-tentacled species, Discosoma Kenti, “met with in Western Australian waters 
having bright blue tentacles, as not infrequently occurs on the Great Barrier Reef and 
in Torres Straits. An example of this strikingly beautiful variety is figured in the 
writer’s previously cited volume. The representatives of this anemone observed at the 
Lacepede Islands and elsewhere on the Western Australian coast were usually of a 
light grey or lilac tint, with sometimes brighter lilac or crimson tentacle tips. 
The two species of fish, Amphiprion, referred to as found associated as 
commensals with the Lacepede Islands Discosome, were also met with by the writer 
consorting with a smaller and altogether distinct species of sea anemone. The largest 
examples of this anemone when expanded rarely exceeded, or even equalled, six 
inches in diameter, and when growing as isolated individuals were never found 
accompanied by commensal fish. Their more customary growth habit was, however, to 
congregate in clusters in the fissures of the coral rocks, their adherent bases and 
columns being thrust deep within the rock crevices, leaving their densely united 
masses of extended tentacles alone visible. The Opelet Anemone, Anthea cereus, of the 
British seas, commonly exhibits a similar aggregated growth plan. It was among 
