142 ZOOPUYTE8. 



have one spot at their inner bases. This spot is of a 

 light flesh color. Dredged from 35 fathoms, N. E. shore. 



"A. obtruncata. St. — Body short, with a broad flat disc, 

 on which, between the small mouth and the margin, are 

 placed the tentacular ; which are short, very blunt at their 

 extremities, as if cut off, usually equidistant, not very 

 numerous, and arranged alternately in four or five very 

 indistinct rows. Sides, smooth and clean, with a few porous 

 warts, which can seldom be perceived. Color, dark pur- 

 plish, lighter on the disc, with broad streaks of crimson, 

 which meander among the bases of the tentacular 



"A. sipunculoidts. St.— Body greatly elongated, covered 

 with a thin brownish epidermis, with eight narrow lon- 

 gitudinal white lines, dividing the body at the anterior 

 extremity in eight lobes when contracted. Tentacular 

 twenty, short, curved, and with blunt extremities." 



For further information concerning these Anemones, toge- 

 ther with a list of the other Invertebrata of Grand Menan, 

 the reader is referred to volume six of the Smithsonian 

 Contributions to Knowledge for 1854. 



Dr. Leidy has given a paper in the third volume of 

 the new series of the Journal of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia on the Invertebrata of Rhode 

 Island and New Jersey, in which a few new Anemones 

 are mentioned, the descriptions of which I copy below. 



"Actinia marginata. Var. ambrea. — Two or three lines 

 in diameter, of a translucent, ambreous appearance. • 



Var. salmonca.— One inch in diameter. Bright salmon 

 color. When irritated, it ejected jets of water from large 

 pores of the body, a phenomenon I did not observe iu the 



