POLYACTINIA. 
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POLY ACTINIA (ACTINARIA). 
Actinnd(^. 
Calliactis sol, and Taractts rapiformis, Verr., sp. nn., North Carolina, de- 
scribed : Verrill, Am. J. Sc. (3) iii. pp. 435 & 43G. 
Cladaciis, g. n. Basis adlicerens, orbicularis, amplissima. Coliimna conica, 
imperforata, sulcata, membranacea, tiiberculis subtentaculiformibus, ramosis, 
capitatis sparsa. Capitula tuberculorum cnidarum strato obtecta. Discus or- 
bicularis, planus, retractilis ; radii apparentes. Os amplum, absque tuber- 
culis gonidialibus. C. costa, sp. n., Panceri (10, figs. 1-8), Capri (deep 
water). 
Halcampa claparedii, id. 1. c. figs. 9-16, Posilippo. 
Turbinolidce. 
Fungiacyathus, g. n., Sars (13, p. 68, pi. 6. figs. 24-32). Polyparium simplex, 
liberum, absque vestigio adhsesionis, discoideum vel lamina modo instructum 
basali horizontal! plana, subtns subtiliter radiatim costata, lamina vero mural i 
(tlu'ca) nulla. Calyx aubcircularis, supra (septis altis) convoxior, margino 
criapo. Columella nulla ; pali nulli. Septa numorosa, aystemata 6 et ordincs 
6-8 formantia, prim aria et secundaria valde elevata, arcuata, subtiliter trans- 
verse plicata, margine superiore subundulato, usque ad centrum producta, et 
hie irregulariter lobata et flexuosa, omnia in tota longitudine discreta, tenuis- 
sima, supra marginem exteriorem calycis prominentia. Fossa calicinalis sat 
magua et sequaliter depressa. Animal simplex actiniiforme sanguineum, ore 
elliptico plicato, tentaculis parvis conico-cylindratis, verrucosis, apice ohtuso, 
non retractilibus, 4-5-seriatis. F. gracilis, S. Lofoden Isles (300 fathoms) 
Semper describes and figures the following species from the Philippines : 
Blastotrochus nutrix, M.-E. (old specimens, with obliterated bud-scars, not 
distinguishable from Flabelhmi), Flahcllum irregular c and variahilc, spp. nn. 
(^zsstohesi, oweni, spinosum, aculeatuni), Flacotrochus Icevis, M.-E., Troclio- 
cyathus philippinensis, Paracyathus rotundatus, Ileterocyathus philippinensis 
and parasitictis, spp. nn. (with sipunculi) : id. 1. c. pp. 237-255, pis. 16-20. 
Haplophyllia rugosa, Pourt., of very doubtful palaeozoic (“rugose”) affini- 
ties, is refigured, Am. Nat. vi. p. 296. 
Eupsammiidee, 
Phodopsammia, g. n.. Semper (14, p. 257). “ Polj^pary single or with 
lateral buds, free or attached, cylindro-conical or compressed. Epitheca ab- 
sent or rudimentary. Costae simple, distinct from the base, close, equal, 
granular. Calycular fossa rather deep, with a more or less elevated columella 
composed of convoluted leaflets. Septa narrow, acute, hardly rising above 
the margin, those of the first cycle equal, extending quite to the columella, 
those of the second smaller but also connected with the columella, those of 
the following (often irregular) cycles much narrower, and without exception 
connected with those of the preceding cycle.” (In the system of Milne-Ed wards 
the free Rhodopsammia would be referred to Fupsammia, the attached to Bala- 
nophyllia, which the author thinks very unnatural, “ leaving it to others to put 
the other described recent and fossil Eupsammiidec in systematic connexion 
with those here made known from the Philippines.”) R. carinata, amoma, 
