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simple, smooth, without spines aud equatorial girdle. Both polar spines sword-slmped triangular, 

 two-edged, about as long as the radius of the disk, and as broad at the base as the inner medullary 

 shell. 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the disk 0'15, of the outer medullary shell 0'05, of the inner 0'02 ; 

 length of the polar spines 0'08, basal breadth 0"02. 



Habitat. — Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Eabbe, surface. 



Subgenus 2. Astrostylus, Haeckel. 



Definition. — Margin of the disk with a solid equatorial giixlle or a corona of radial 

 spines. 



3. Phacostylus amphipyramis, n. sp. 



Disk with spiny surface, four and a half times as broad as the outer, and fourteen times as 

 broad as the inner medullary shell. Pores irregular, roundish ; eight to ten on the radius. 

 Margin of the disk with a corona of irregular, radial spines. Both opposite polar spines pyramidal, 

 twice as long as broad, and nearly as long as the radius of the disk. 



Dimensions. — Diameter of the disk 0'22, of the outer medullary shell O'Oo, of the inner 0'016 ; 

 length of the polar spines 01, basal breadth 0'05. 



Eahitat. — Western Tropical Pacific, Station 225, depth 4475 fathoms. 



4. Phacostylus caudatus, n. sp. (PI. 32, fig. 6). 



Astrosestrmn caudatum, Haeckel, 1881, Prodromus efc Atlas (pi. xxxii. fig. 6). 



Disk with smooth surface, two and a half times as broad as the outer, and six times as broad as 

 the inner medullary shell. Pores regular, circular ; six to seven on the radius of the disk. Margin 

 with a solid equatorial girdle, and irregularly bordered with eight to ten conical spines ; two 

 opposite of these are much longer than the others. (This species can be derived from Astrosestrmn, 

 two opposite marginal spines being much more strongly developed than the six to eight others.) 



Dimensions. — -Diameter of disk 0'12, of the outer medullary shell 0'05, of the inner 0'02 ; 

 length of the polar spines O'l to 0-25, basal breadth 0'025. 



Hahitat. — North Pacific, Station 244, depth 2900 fathoms. 



5. Phacostylus maximus, n. sp. 



Disk with smooth surface, five times as broad as the outer, and ten tunes as broad as the inner 

 medullary shell. Pores regular, circular ; twenty to twenty-two on the radius. Margin with a solid 

 equatorial girdle, bearing on the periphery one hundred to one hundred and twenty plain teeth, aud 

 two very large polar spines, which are cylindrical, longer than the diameter of the disk, and as 

 broad at the furrowed base as the radius of the outer medullary shell. (Similar to Scthostylug 

 dentatus, PI. 34, fig. 1, but much larger, and with a double medullary shell.) 



