ECHIXODERMA. 7 



AsTERIAS BRANDTI. 



brandti, Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc. (l**i;, p. :H. 

 Asterias ;m//<r///. {,].. up. eit. pp. '.i-l ami ~iO(>. 



1 >r. Meissner lias suggested that J. negleeta, which I described at tlie same lime 

 as A. ftninilfl, is the same species. I think he is right; A belli of Prof. Studer and 

 ^.4. glomerata of Sluden appear to be also synonymous ; with regard to the first three 

 Prof. Perrier suggested the same view in 1891. 



My species were described on pp. 91 and 94 of the Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1881 ; 

 Dr. Meissner's synonymy will be found on p. 7 of tlie Ergeb. Hamburg Magalluui. 

 Sammelreise, Lief. vii. (1904). I suggested in the report on the 'Southern Cross' 

 collections (p. 215) that the species was circumpolar in its distribution, and so it 

 certainly is. 



A large number of specimens were collected; the largest, from 4-10 fins. 

 McMurdo Bay, was the " mother of a number of young after capture" * ; and some other 

 large specimens were taken at No. 3 hole, and some smaller at No. 11. Flagon Point 

 (10-20 fms.), Cape Wadsworth, and Hut Point also yielded examples ; the lar-je 

 examples marked 4H and 49 are only said to be from Winter Quarters. 



From 100 fms. (East end of Barrier) and 130 fms. (X<>. 2) specimens were 

 collected which, but for the formidable synonymy of the species. 1 should be inclined (o 



regard as distinct. 



ASTERIAS L< >.\<;STAFFI. 



This line >pecies is represented bv a single specimen, which presents well-marked 

 features. 1 name it after the generous friend of science whose contribution to tin- 

 funds of the Royal Geographical Society made the vovage of the 'Discover.- 

 possible. 



A large stout form with A' about equal to I! / ; the whole of the dorsal surface i- 

 uuiformly and densely covered with paxilliform spines of some size. The madreporite is 

 of moderate size ; the podia are enormous, the adambulacral spines are loni;. 

 cylindrical, blunt at the tip, so irregularly set that it is ditlicult to say whether then- 

 are two or three rows : beyond them there are shorter and more delicate, but otherwise 

 similar cylindrical spines verv doselv set; there are two tjuitc well-marked fets of 

 marginal plates; the inferomarginals are very narrow in the an^le of the arm, while 

 the superomarginals in the same region are verv .-hort ; both sets are covered with 

 coarse granules, among which no pediccllariae are to be detected. The podia within 

 the oral circlet are of enormous si/e. If = 210 ; / = 70. 



\V.( V >. : 10-20 fms. 



As there is only a single specimen, no comparisons are possible; but it muv be 



' These luivc IHTII in:uli- tin- -uliji-ct ..1 ;ui iiitcivstin^ separate iv[>it \<\ I'mf. M;i.-]Hiili' and Mr. '. ('. Simpson. 



