132 Description of New or Little known Species o f 



whole body, surface covered with small (three or four lines,) 

 short, conical, truncated tentacles, disposed in rays, running 

 from oral opening to edge of disc, alternated with shorter 

 ones which proceed from middle third of disc with two other 

 shorter ones, on each side, and the whole terminate at the 

 margin in close compact rays. On each side of oral opening, 

 is a semi -globular body with a central foramen, which com- 

 municates with the oviducts. 



The colours of this singular form of Anemone vary much ; 

 at times, it is all of a purplish brown with greenish reflections, 

 on other occasions the uncovered space of disc is of an earthy 

 brown colour, or green, and the rays of tentacles either en- 

 tirely green, or maculated with purple and white. 



Breadth of disc when expanded from 4 to 5 inches. 



If this Anemone is to be considered of a genus distinct 

 from Actinia, I think of reinstating the generic term of Acti- 

 nodiscus, given to a much smaller creature by M. Blainville 

 for it also, like the species of Leuckart's Dioscosoma, has two 

 discs, and the animal, when waiting for its prey, is not unlike 

 a depressed hour glass in shape. It can withdraw the supe- 

 rior disc within, when the red spotted body is seen to be of a 

 club shaped form. 



Peacha Gossei. Kel 



Body semi-carneous, covered by a brownish skin, corru- 

 gated, narrow and long. Tentacles from 19 to 21, long, 

 narrow and acutely pointed; either of a green colour, or purple, 

 marked on superior surface with transverse blue or white 

 lines, some of which are arrow-shaped. Mouth on a conical 

 eminence. Inferior opening giving passage to ova and excre- 

 mentitious matter. Length 4 or 5 inches, and about f inch 



