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Z. HELIANTH01DA. 
Actinia. 
from the mere will of the creature, which has great powers of con- 
tractility. This being assumed, we are entitled to say to Oken, who 
makes one genus of the Dianthus, and another genus of the plumosa, 
— “ Generis falsa est ea fabula vestri.” 
Mr Templeton under the name of “ A. dianthus ?” describes a 
species which appears to be distinct. — “ Conic, rounded above, of a green 
or greenish-yellow colour, with a few scattered warts in longitudinal 
rows ; disk light blue, often divided into 1 1 lobes ; tentacula numerous, 
pale, in from 5 to 7 fasciculi, variegated with dark annuli. In the 
hollows of the rocks at Ballyholm Bay, Bangor.” Mag. Nat. Hist, 
ix. 304. 
6. A. maculata, base fixed to a thin horny expansion attached 
to the apertures of various dead shells ; body longitudinally sul- 
cated , marked with purple spots ; tentacula numerous , rather 
short , arranged in three or four irregular rows. Mr Adams. 
Fig. 32. 
Actinia maculata, Adams in Lin. Trans, v. p. 8. Turt. Gmel. iv." 105. 
Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. 104. Coldstream in Edin. New Phil. Journ. ix. p. 
236. t. 4. f. 6. 7. and in Edin. Journ. Nat. and Geog. Sc. iii. 49 A. 
carciniopados, Otto in Nov. Act. Acad. C. L. C. Nat. Cur. xi. 288. pi. 
40 Parasite Actinea, Landsborough in Scottish Christian Herald, ii. 
333 A. effoeta, Turt. Brit. Faun. p. 131. Turt. Gmel. iv. 101. 
Hab. Milford Haven, surrounding the apertures of deserted shells 
of the Murex despectus, Adams. Torbay ; and in Rothesay and 
Karnes Bays in Bute, either thrown ashore after easterly gales, or 
drawn in by flounder-nets, Dr Coldstream. Stevenston, Ayrshire, 
Fev. D. Landsborough. 
“ This beautiful species is longitudinally sulcated, having the edges 
of the base crenated : the lower part is an obscure red, and the up- 
per part is transparent white marked with fine purple spots ; the 
outer circumference of the aperture has a narrow stripe of pink. 
