CEYLON ZOOPHYTES. 



Badiata. 



Order. Polypi. 



Fam. Actiniadjs. 



Animal single, fleshy, elongate or conical, capable of extend™ 

 ing 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 tentacuia ; 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 

 occupied by one or more uninterrupted series of conical, 

 undivided tubular tentacuia, which are entirely retractile. 



Actinia Wakdii. 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 radiating 

 lines. Tentacles in two or three rows, about 1 inch in length, 

 narrow, pointed obtusely ; whitish ; base purplish, tip bright 

 crimson, transversely striped with grey or dark buff. 



Height 2 J inches. Breadth nearly 2 inches, when expanded. 



Found in deep water on the oyster banks at Cottear, opposite 

 Fort Frederick. 



This handsome species I have dedicated to Sir Henry Ward, 

 Governor of Ceylon, under whose auspices I have been enabled 



