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Cylista coccinea, Mull, an ACTINIARIAN new to 
LIVERPOOL BAY. 
By Joun W. Ettis, L.R.C.P., F.E.S. 
[Read 12th November, 1887.] 
On Whit-Monday (14th June, 1886), while the ‘“‘ Hyzna”’ 
was on her homeward passage, having left Holyhead about 
four a.m., to escape as far as possible a gathering storm, 
and when about three miles $.8.E. of Point Lynus, a cast 
of the dredge was taken in about twelve fathoms of water. 
When hauled on board, the dredge was perfectly full of 
fine specimens of Spatangus purpureus, a sea-urchin which 
had scarcely, if at all, been noticed in any of the previous 
L. M. B. C. expeditions. Among the rubbish at the 
bottom of the dredge were a few broken razor-shells 
(Solen ensis), and upon a valve of one of these a small 
anemone was observed, and handed to me for identifi- 
cation. During the passage home the specimen remained 
in a contracted condition, and not until two days after its 
arrival in Liverpool did it expand its tentacles sufficiently 
for a correct diagnosis of the species to be made, but then 
the salmon-red column with white longitudinal stripes, and 
the pellucid tentacles, with opaque white rings and black 
bar, showed it to belong to a species hitherto unrecorded 
for the L. M. B.C. district, and a prize wherever found 
in British seas, viz. Sagartia coccinea, Mull, of Gosse’s 
‘“‘Actinologia Britannica,’ Cylista coccinea, Mull, of the 
“Fauna of the Gulf of Naples. 
This beautiful species is recorded by Gosse, on the 
authority of Professor Forbes, from ‘‘the Irish coast, on 
rocks and seaweeds,” a vague locality, and as found by 
