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Found on stones in Back Bay, Trincomalie. 



Kesembling a Zoanthura, but the clear diaphanous body and 

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

 Actinia. 



Actinia vekmicosa. Kel. 



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

 height ; whitish-pellucid. Tentacles from twelve to eighteen, 

 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 When the tentacles are withdrawn this little creature 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 globuse, with a golden 

 coloured head. t 



Actinia fluotuosa. Kel. 



Body pale, flesh-coloured ; indistinctly longitudinally striated, 

 with white spotted lines ; sey era! rows of pale-blue granules 

 near edge of disc. 



Disc waved, tubercular, forming sometimes in triangular or 

 quadrangular masses, at other times circular ; centre of disc 

 pale, the rest white with radiating lines. 



Tentacles numerous, in three rows, pale-brown, occasionally 

 greenish-pellucid. The number on inner row fewer ; extreme 

 point white. 



Height 1 inch. Breadth 1J inch. 



Found in Back Bay, Trincomalie. 



Actinia samaeagdana. Kel. 



Small, disc of a beautiful bright emerald-green, with white 

 lines or radiating rays. Tentacles numerous, set in three rows ; 

 short, oblong, semi-conical, obtusely pointed ; white at the base; 

 beyond this, purplish-brown, the rest very pellucid, dashed 

 with purplish and white spots. 



Body flesh-coloured, longitudinally striated. Two or more 

 rows of pale-green rounded tubercules, on discal margin, 

 inferior to outer rows of tubercules ; at times these granules 

 are of a white colour. 



