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A. E. Verrill — New Actinians. 



It has been pretty fully described, as to its anatomy, by 

 McMurrich. The collar is covered by radial pseudof roods 

 composed of about three rows each, of 

 lobed tubercles, the lobules being short 

 or rounded ; a single larger lobed tuber- 

 cle or actinobranch occupies the distal 

 end of each group, and a nearly simple 

 one often forms the proximal end, next 

 to the fosse at the bases of the tentacles. 

 The color is variable, but the collar is 

 usually umber-brown, varied with yellow- 

 Fig. 10. ish, flake white, and reddish brown spots. 



Asteractis JBradleyiYer. Figures 10, 11, 12. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., i, p. 465, 1869. Andres, op. cit., p. 292, 1884. 



This is closely allied to the preceding species. The pseudo- 

 fronds of the collar are made up of more finely lobulated ver- 

 rucse, so that they appear more complex. These verrucse, in 



the alcoholic specimen, are closely crowded in each radial 

 series, of which there are 48 ; their upper and lateral surfaces 

 are divided into many small rounded or conical lobules, most 

 prominent along the outer sides and at the distal end of the 

 last or distal one, where about five lobules project, in each 

 group, beyond the edge of the collar, giving it a finely serrate 

 or fringed appearance (figs. 11, 12). The verruciform adhesive 

 suckers are in 48 rows, of 3 to 5 each, corresponding to the 



