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TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Amongst the rarer of the large Medusae which enter 

 Port Erin Bay there is one (Pelagia perla) which is 

 marvellously phosphorescent, glowing in the water like a 

 ball of incandescent metal. 



Sea-anemones are abundant and varied round the 

 South end of the Isle of Man. Fig. Y. shows several of 

 the more important kinds found at Port Erin, most of 



iHakampa chrysanthellum. 2. Actinia equina- S.MeTridium dianthus. 

 i.Sagartia venusta. S.Bunodes verrucosa 



Fig. V. 



which are generally on view in the Aquarium. Actinia 

 equina (or A. mesembryanthemum), No. 2, is the common 

 dark red, smooth-bodied anemone which sometimes has a 

 row of bright blue spherules round the body at the base of 

 the tentacles. Metridium (or Actinoloba) dianthus (3) is 

 the plumose anemone, found at low tide attached to the 

 blocks of the old breakwater. It is generally of a pure 



