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Species of Ophiopholis not herein described. 

 Ophiopholis aculeata, Gray (PL XLVI. fig. 6). 



Ophiopholis aculeata, Gray, Rad. Animals Brit. Mus., p. 25, 1848 ; Ltk., Addit. ad Hist., part 1, 



p. 60, pi. ii. figs. 15, 16. 

 Bellis seolopendrica, Linck, De Stel. Mar., p. 52, pi. xl. fig. 71, 1733. 

 Asterias aculeata, Linn., Syst. Nat. (Gmel.), p. 3166, 1788. 

 Asterias ophiura, Fabr., Fauna Groen., p. 371, 1780. 

 Asterias aculeata, Eetz., Asterire Gen., p. 240, 1783. 



Asterias aculeata, Abildgaard, in Miiller, Zool. Dan., p. 29, pL xcix., 1789. 

 Ophiura flemingii et Ophiura ammothea, Leach, Zool. Misc., vol. ii. pp. 55, 56, pi. lxxix. 



figs. 1-3. 

 Ophiura bellis, Flem., Edin. Phil. Journ., vol. viii. p. 298; Brit. Anim., p. 488; Johnston, 



Mag. Nat. Hist, p. 595. 

 Ophiocoma bellis, Fbs., Wern. Mem., voL viii. p. 126; Brit. Starfishes, p. 53. 

 Ophiolepis (Ophiopholis) seolopendrica, Mull. & Tr., Wieg. Archiv., p. 328 ; Syst. Ast., p. 96. 

 Ophiopholis bellis, Lym., 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. i. p. 96, pi. i. figs. 4-6. 

 Pohjpholis echinata (1), Duncan, Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xv. p. 73, pi. iii. (Young). 



North-east America ; North European and Arctic seas ; littoral to 400 fathoms. 



Ophiopholis kennerlyi, Lym., Proo. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. vii. p. 200, 1860; 111. 

 Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. i. p. 100. 



Puget Sound to Mendocino, California. 



Ophiopholis caryi, Lym., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. vii. p. 261, 1860 ; 111. Cat. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., No. i. p. 101. 



Queen Charlotte Island (?), Coast of California ; littoral to 22 fathoms. 



Ophiopholis mirabilis, Lym., Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. vi. part 2, p. 43. 



Ophiolepis mirabilis, Duncan, Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xiv. p. 460, pis. ix. and x. figs. 12-14. 



Korean Sea. 



Ophiactis. 

 Ophiactis, Ltk., Vid. Meddel, 1856. 



Disk circular, robust, closely covered with radial shields arid overlapping scales, the 

 latter bearing usually a greater or less number of small spines. Teeth. No tooth papilla?. 

 Mouth angles small and narrow, and bearing a few (usually two or four) small mouth 

 papillae. Arms stout, somewhat flattened, of moderate length (four to seven times 

 diameter of disk). Arm spines stout, smooth, and solid. Two genital openings beginning 

 outside the mouth shields. 



