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170), with disks from 12 mm. to 9 mm. in diameter, had smooth disk spines, like Station 

 205, and six arm spines, and upper and under arm plates, like Station 214. The 

 number of mouth papillae to each angle varied from seven to ten, without reference to 

 size of specimen. 



Station 170.— July 14, 1874; lat. 29° 45' EL, long. 178° II' W. ; 630 fathoms. 

 Station 205.— 1050 fathoms. Station 214.— February 10, 1875; lat. 4° 33' N., long. 

 127° 6' E. ; 500 fathoms ; globigerina ooze. 



Ophiomitra sarsii, Lym. (PL X. figs. 10-12). 



Ophiomitra sarsii, Lym., Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., voL vii. p. 151, pi. viii. figs. 216, 217, 

 1878. 



Eight stout cylindrical arm spines. Tentacle scales fiat, tapering, jagged. Scaling 

 of disk finer than in Ophiomitra plicata. 



(Type specimen from Station 146.) Diameter of disk 15 mm. Length of arm about 



100 mm. Width of arm without spines 4 '5 mm. Seven or eight thick-pointed mouth 



papillae to each angle. Seven teeth of similar form, but more blunt and flat. Mouth 



shields small, as long as broad, with an irregular outline ; outer margin more or less 



thickened and turned downward ; length to breadth, 2 : 2. Side mouth shields broad 



and thick, and closely joined to surrounding parts. Under arm plates broader than 



long, broader without than within, separated by slight transverse depressions ; outer edge 



thickened, especially at its middle point. Midway on the arm, they are wide pentagonal, 



with an obtuse angle inward, and the outer edge not thickened. Side arm plates slightly 



projecting, meeting near base of arm narrowly below and scarcely or not at all above. 



Upper arm plates separated by transverse creases, thick, wider than long ; widest 



without, where they are bounded by a gentle curve ; inner side making a deep irregular 



curve. Disk (in alcohol) thick, rising well above the arms, with a deep constriction and 



furrow in each interbrachial space. On margin of disk and along outer interbrachial 



edge of radial shields lie three or four wide plates larger than the rest, which are coarse, 



irregular, overlapping scales, beset with short, stout, smooth, often club-ended spines, 



which are found also on edge of disk over the arms. Radial shields pearseed-shaped, 



with point inward, sunken, outer end rounded, separated widely by a broad wedge of 



scales ; length to breadth, 4 : l - 8. Near base of arm eight stout, glassy, blunt, cylindrical, 



very thorny spines, of which the under are nearly as long as the upper ; lengths to that 



of an arm joint, 2, 3-8, 3, 2*8, 2-8, 2"8, 2-5, 2"5 : 17. Two-thirds out on the arm there 



are only four spines, of which the second is much the longest, 5 - 5 mm. Two tentacle 



scales on the first pore, one on the others ; stout, pointed, flattened, cloven or jagged 



on the edges ; farther out they take on the form of stout, very thorny spines. Colour 



in alcohol, dull grey. 



