124 Description of New and Little known Species of 



CEYLON ZOOPHYTES. 



Kadi ata. 

 Order. Polypi. 

 Fam. Actiniadje. 



Animal single, fleshy, elongate or conical, capable of ex- 

 tending or contracting itself, fixed by its base, but with power 

 of locomotion, mouth in the middle of the upper disc, very 

 dilatable, surrounded by one or more rows of tentacula ; 

 oviparous and viviparous ; marine. 



Genus. Actinia. Linnceus. 



Body conoid or cylindrical, adhering by a broad base ; the 

 space between the mouth and the rim of the upper disc occu- 

 pied by one or more uninterrupted series of conical, undivided 

 tubular tentacula, which are entirely retractile. 



Actinia Ward.ii. Kel 



Body large, greenish yellow, except the upper half, which 

 is of purplish colour and tuberculated ; the other parts nearly 

 smooth, indistinctly streaked. Disc buff, with darker radiat- 

 ing lines. Tentacles in 2 or 3 rows, about one inch in length ; 



