No. 9.-— 1856-8.] NEW CEYLON SEA ANEMONES. 



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to prosecute my researches among marine animals, with more 

 than ordinary success. 



Actinia Tranchelli, Kel 



Body short, longitudinally striated with pale-green, alternately 

 with lines covered with yellow and white tubercules, small ovular 

 granules round edge of disc. Disc circular, cup-shaped ; 

 greenish and rayed with four or five white lines. Tentacles about 

 an inch long, set in two rows, narrow, finely pointed, pellucid, 

 and spotted with opaque, oblong, white and purplish spots ; 

 1^- inch high and f inch broad. The inner row of tentacles 

 generally erect, and the outer curving over side of body. 



Found in Dutch Bay. Named in compliment to Miss 

 Tranchell, of Trincomalie. 



Actinia pudica. Kel 



Body opaque-white ; irregularly striated and spotted with 

 light-crimson. Tentacles few, pellucid-white ; short, conical ; 

 set in two or three rows. Disc pellucid, and streaked with 

 milky-white. 



This elegant anemone, when detached, floats on water like 

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

 Found on small stones in Back Bay, Trincomalie. 



Actinia passifloba. 



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

 truncated, or capped (?) ; purplish-white, the longer five or six 

 have dark-purple base and rings. 



This may be a species connecting Capnia with Actinia. 

 Height 1 to 1| inch ; § inch broad. 



Found near Sami Rock. 



Actinia befulgens. Kel. 



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

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



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