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Z. HELI ANTHOiDA. 
Actinia. 
Bose , Vers, ii. 259 A. monile (the young,) Templeton in Mag. Nat. 
Hist. ix. 303, fig. 49. A. Beilis, Rapp, Polyp. 50. tab. 1, fig. 1, 2. 
Var. The body warted, the warts equal, distinct, but scattered without 
order over the surface Act. senilis, Diequemare in Phil. Trans, lxiii. 
367, tab. 16, fig. 10 ; and tab. 17, fig. 11, 12. Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 105. 
Blumenb. Man. 246. Templeton in Mag. Nat Hist. ix. 303. A. cori- 
acea, Cuv. Reg. Anim. iii. 291. Rapp, Polyp. 51, tab. 1, fig. 3, 4. Teale 
in Trans. Leeds Soc. i. 91, pi. 9, 10, 11. 
Var. y. Body warted, the warts distant, equal, and sometimes obscure. 
Act. equina, Sowerby, Brit. Misc. 7, pi. 4. Turt. Brit. Faun. 130. 
Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 106. A. effoeta? Rapp, Polyp. 54, taf. 2, fig. 
2. Templeton in Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. 303. 
Var. d. Body quite smooth, irregularly clouded with scarlet, tentacula an- 
nulated with red and white Priapus sive Actinia proboscidibus crassis 
rotundis, Bast. Opusc. Subsec. i. lib. 3. 143, tab. 13, fig. 1 Act. feli- 
na, Lin. Syst. 1088. Barbut, Gen. Verm. 53, tab. 5, fig. 6. Bose, Vers, 
ii. 255 A. coccinea, Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 231, no. 2792. Zool. 
Dan. tab. 63, fig. 1-3. (young.) Bose, Vers, ii. 255. Lam. Anim. s. 
Vert. iii. 68 A. crassicornis, Mull. Zool. Dan. prod. 231. Adams in 
Lin. Trans, iii. 252. Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 105. Turt. Gmel. iv. 100. 
Turt. Brit. Faun. 130. Stew. Elem. i. 393- Lam. Anim. s. Vert. iii. 
67. Stark, Elem ii. 412. Fabric. Faun. Groenl. 348, no. 341. Jame- 
son in Wern. Mem. i. 558 A. truncata, Jameson in Wern. Mem. i. 
558. Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 106. Turt. Gmel. iv- 101. Turt. Brit. 
Faun. 131. 
Hab. In crevices of rocks between tide- marks, and on shells, &c. 
in deep water, very common. 
Body usually rather more than two inches in diameter, hemispheri- 
cal when contracted, covered with glandular warts, arranged some- 
times in regular perpendicular lines, sometimes irregularly, and some- 
times they are scarcely or not at all obvious. The tentacula are dis- 
posed within the circumference of the oral disk, in 3 or 4 close rows ; 
they are thick, short, obtuse, somewhat compressed, almost always 
annulated or variegated with white and red, but when the body is of 
a uniform pale, flesh, or cream colour, the tentacula are of the same 
colour and without rings. The animal protrudes from the mouth at 
pleasure four or five vesicular, pellucid, scored lobes, which vary in 
size according to their degree of evolution, and often hang over the 
sides. When kept for a few days in a basin of sea-water, it becomes 
much larger in all its parts, paler and almost diaphanous ; and the 
tentacula elongate themselves, swell out, and are distinctly seen to be 
tubular. These adhere tenaciously to foreign bodies, for their apices 
act as suckers, and carry prey to the mouth in spite of ail its strug- 
gles. 
This species is liable to great variation in colour and size. The 
