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SOLASTERI.-K 



ASTERIADjE. 



SOLASTERIiE. 



THE ROSY CRIBELLA. 



Cribella rosea. Muller. 



Specific Character. — Rays and disk with regular longitudinal rows of sub- 

 triangular reticulating spiniferous tubercles. 



Asterias rosea, Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. 2837. Zool. Dan. t. lxvii. 



Ireland has been long looked upon as a sort of terra 

 incognita by British naturalists. Although it might seem 

 to the politician a land of plagues and agitations, to the 



