A. E. Verrill — New American Actinians. 495 



Sagartia ( Tho'e) leucolena Ver. 



Sagarlia leucolena Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., x, p. 336, 1865 ; Amer. 

 Naturalist, ii, p. 261 ; Rep. on Invert, of Vineyard Sd., etc., pp. 444, 329, etc., pi. 

 38, fig. 284, 1874; Radiata North Carolina, this Journal, iii, p. 436, 1872. 



Cylista leucolena Andres, Attinie Golfes Neapel, p. 151, 1884. 



This species also has a smooth column, without any adhesive 

 suckers, though the scattered cinclides show distinctly, as 

 pores, when living specimens are viewed by transmitted light. 

 Therefore it does not belong to Cylista, to which Andres 

 referred it, for the latter has very evident suckers. 



It is easily distinguished from S. JOucice by its very elon- 

 gated, often flaccid, column, which is translucent flesh-color or 

 salmon-color, and by the pale translucent disk and tentacles, 

 without any strong markings. This species lives in the same 

 region as the preceding and is often associated with it, near 

 low-water mark, under stones. It ranges southward to North 

 Carolina. 



Actinia Bermudensis, sp. no v. 



Column smooth, changeable in form, usually, in expansion, 

 about as high as broad, often broader than high, capable of 

 contracting to a low hemispherical form, with tentacles entirely 

 concealed, but it contracts rather slowly. There is a distinct, 

 strong, submarginal fold, just below the acrorhagi. These are 

 marginal, very large, hemispherical or verruciform, not very 

 numerous (about 24), bright blue. They are often concealed 

 by the fold below them. Tentacles numerous, usually 72 to 96, 

 rather stout, elongated, arranged in several circles in the larger 

 examples; when fully extended the longest are often as long- 

 as the diameter of the disk, or even exceed it. The mouth is 

 large with a strong gonidial groove at each end, bordered by 

 prominent lobes ; sides of mouth with numerous small folds. 



Color of column usually bright cherry-red, sometimes dark 

 red, crimson, or rose-red. Tentacles paler than the column, 

 but usually of the same general color, or brighter. Lips often 

 bright red or carmine. Acroi-hagi bright blue. Disk similar 

 to the tentacles. 



Height of column up to 1*5 inches (30 to 40 mm ) ; diameter 

 up to 1*75 inches or more (40 to 50 mm ). 



Bermuda Islands on the under side of large stones at and 

 above low-water mark, especiallv at Bailey's Bay and Castle 

 Harbor. (A. E. Verrill and party, 189S.) 



Var. fervucjinea. 



A variety, apparently of the same species, was occasionally 

 observed, in the same localities, in which the color of the col- 



