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XXXII. 
KEPOKT ON THE ACTINIA DEEDGED OFF THE SOUTH- 
WEST COAST OE IRELAND IN MAY, 1888. By Peofessor 
A. C. HADDON. 
[EeadMAY 13, 1889.] 
Eight species of Actiniae from three stations were entrusted to me for 
identification by the Dredging Committee, which was appointed to 
investigate the marine fauna inhabiting the deep water o:ff the south- 
west coast of Ireland during the present year (1888). 
(a) S. W. Ireland, in 345 fathoms. 
Actinange sp., four specimens ; Chitonactis numerous specimens. 
Actinmige sp. 
Body wall, with small pointed tubercles, irregularly scattered, 
dying away below so that the expanded base is smooth ; pedal disc 
bulbous, enclosing a ball of mud. One specimen, of apparently the 
same species, adherent to a gastropod shell, untenanted by a hermit 
crab. Friable cuticle present on middle portion of body. Coronal 
tubercles fairly prominent ; capitulum smooth. Tentacles short, inner 
cycles with a small basal bulb on the aboral aspect. 
Colour. — In spirit the colour is whitish; cuticle greenish buff, 
oesophagus, disc and base of tentacles madder-brown in some speci- 
mens. 
Dimensions in spirit. — Height, 30 mm. ; average diameter of column, 
12 mm. ; diameter of bulbous base, 25 mm. 
These specimens belong to the genus Actinange of Yerrill, as inter- 
preted by myself Revision of the British Actiniae," Part I., Trans. 
Royal Dublin Society, 1888). There are several points of difference 
between these forms and those which I have elsewhere identified as 
A. richardi (Mar.). The tubercles are much smaller in size, and are 
pointed, closely resembling those of Chitonactis, as in the latter genus 
the capitulum appears to be smooth. If it had not been for the small 
but distinct basal bulb of the inner cycles of tentacles, I would have 
considered that these specimens belonged to that genus. 
It is possible that after I have been able to examine these speci- 
mens anatomically I may be able to prove that they are a distinct 
