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crassicornis) is often brilliantly striped and spotted with 

 red and white, and usually attaches sand, shells and small 

 stones to the outside of the body. It has a most voracious 

 appetite, and large specimens have sometimes been seen 

 to swallow, or rather stretch themselves around, shellfish 

 of more than their own diameter. An anemone is known 

 to have been cut in two by the shell of a large clam which 



IHakampa chrysanthelium. 2. Actinia equina. 3. Mctridium dianthi 

 't.Sagartia venusta. S.Bunodes z^errucosa 





Fig. V., Sea-Anemones (about natural size). 



it had drawn into its gullet and then been unable to get 

 rid of. We have one anemone (Anemonia sulcata), the 

 " snakelet," which is unable to retract the tentacles. The 

 " cloaklet " (Adamsia palliata) is one of the most 

 interesting and beautiful of our local anemones. It is 

 always found investing the molluscan shell inhabited by 

 one of the " hermit " crabs (Eupayurus jjrideauxii) (see 



