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deep red, which embrace the bases of the tentacles. Oce 
sionally shore specimens are found having the body uni 
formly bright red, crimson, or pink, with a lighter-colorel 
disk and tentacles. The tentacles are usually banded with 
white in all varieties, but are sometimes uniform pink and 
translucent. Other specimens often have the body pink, 
mottled with orange-red, or blotched with crimson. The 
specimens from deep water have generally brighter 
_ clearer colors than those of the shore, but are quite as com- 
monly found mottled with two or more shades of red, 
uniform red or pink colors. The habits of this fine A 
are much like those of the last, and the young are prodi e 
in the same manner. It attains a much greater size 
specimens are not uncommon which are two inches high 
four or five in diameter when expanded. The large spe 
mens, however, are apt to be troublesome inmates of 
aquarium, on account of their remarkable. voracity, ™ 
nothing seems to come amiss to them. They will cap 
and swallow fishes of considerable size, as well as cit 
mollusks, etc., and even have been known to swali 
spiny sea-urchins of considerable size. Other Actinias, 
are not safe in their neighborhood. Such large apee 
also have a singular habit of frequently protruding 
stomach, and even turning it wrong side out, as if i 
with nausea, which certainly adds nothing to their- 
But specimens of small or medium sizes make very # 
ing pets, and are often more beautifully colored ti 
large ones. wee 
In Massachusetts Bay this species is seldom found 
by dredging, when it usually comes up adhering » 
and dead shells. It inhabits all depths down to 10% 
oms at least. At Eastport, Grand Menan, and other 
at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, where the en® 
leave exposed, at low-water, a wide zone, Unt 
are afforded for obtaining all sorts of rare and ae 
rine productions, which, on other parts of the coast 

