126 Description of Neio and Little known Species of 



like a globe, and may be taken for a species of the genus 

 Mayas. 



Found on small stones in Back Bay, Trincomalie. 



Actinia Passiflora. Kel. J 



Body semi-carneous, brown. Tentacles few ; short, stout, 

 truncated, or capped ? purplish, white, the longer 5 or 6 have 

 dark purple base and rings. 



This may be a species connecting Capnia with Actinia. 

 Height 1 to 1J inch, § inch broad. 



Found near Sammy Rock. 



Actinia Refulgens. Kel 



Small, the largest seen scarcely one inch long ; body white, 

 translucent ; tentacles short, in two rows ; brown with golden 

 spots. 



Found on stones in Back Bay, Trincomalie. 



Resembling a Zoanthura, but the clear diaphanous body and 

 the disunited tentacles, at once show this creature to be an 

 Actinia. 



Actinia Vermicosa. Kel 



Very small. Body 3 lines in diameter and 4 lines in 

 height; whitish pellucid. Tentacles from 12 to 18, small, 

 worm-like; golden yellow or dark yellow brown. Very viscid, 

 When the tentacles are withdrawn this little creature looks 

 like the larva of an insect ; oblong globose, with a golden 

 coloured head. 



