EEPORT ON THE OPHIUROIDEA. IJo 



Table of Species of Ophiomastix — continued. 



Usually one, rarely two tentacle scales. Disk scaling obscured ) „ , . . . 

 One tentacle by thick skin ; a few blunt spines on upper disk, . • f '" 



'Us 

 icle J 



scale. ) 



No tentacle 

 scale. 



I Disk densely beset with very short spine-, . . . Ophiunutdix asji,riil>;i. 



( Disk scales and upper and side arm plates obscured by thick skin. ) .- , . . . _ . , 



| A few small spines on upper disk, . . . . f *' ' ' •' 



Ophiomastix caryophyllata, Ltk., Addit. ad Hist., part 3, pp. 43 and 99, 1869 ; 

 Lym., 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi. p. 15, 1871. 

 Fiji Islands ; Zebu Eeefs. 



Ophiomastix mixta, Ltk., Addit. ad Hist., part 3, pp. 44 and 99, 1869 ; Lym., 111. 

 Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi. p. 15. 

 Fiji Islands. 



Species of Ophiomastix not herein described. 



Ophiomastix annulosa, Mull. & Tr., Syst. Ast., p. 107, 1842 ; Ltk., Addit. ad Hist., 

 part 3, p. 44 ; Lym., 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi. p. 15. 



Ophiura annulosa, Link., Hist. Anini. sans Vert., vol. ii. p. 543, 1816. 

 Java ; Philippines ; Pelews. 



Ophiomastix venosa, Pet., Weig. Archiv, p. 83, 1852 ; Ltk., Addit. ad Hist., part 3, 

 p. 44, 1869 ; Lym., 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi. p. 15. 

 Mozambique. 



Ophiomastix asperula, Ltk., Addit. ad Hist., part 3, pp. 44 and 99, 1869 ; Lym., 

 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi. p. 15. 

 Fiji Island. 



Ophiomastix janualis, Lym., 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi. p. 14, pi. i. figs. 

 13, 14, 1871. 



Ophiomastix fiaccida, Lym., Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. vi. p. 227, pi. vi. figs. 14, 15, 



1874. 



Acanthurachna mirahilis, E. A. Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xiii. p. 335, pi. xviii. figs. 1-6, 1877. 



Philippines ; 7 fathoms. 



