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PENTACEROTID^. 



9. Culcita veneris. 



Ciilcita veneris, Perrier, Arch. Zool., expcr. viii. (1879), p. 48. 



Of this species there is only one specimen known ; it has not 

 hitherto been represented in the National collection. The 

 specimen was obtained as follows: — Lat. -54° 12' 54", I^ong. 

 18° 36' 9". Depth, 23-3; fms. Station V.' 



ASTERINIDJE. 

 10. Asterina coccinea. 



Astcrisais coccineiis, M. Tr., Syst. Ast. (1842), p. 43. 



Asterina coccinea, Perrier, Arch. Zool., exper. v. (1876), p. 234. 

 Was obtained as follows : — 



Locality, 



Seal Island, False Bay, N.W,, 

 ri X., 6i miles. 



Between River and Sebastian 

 Bluff, nearer the I'oimcr. 



Means ol | £ c 1 Xature of \§ "^ 

 Capture. i 'o^s: \ bottom. "S ^ 



u 



By drcdtje ' 22 Broken shells 16211 



Collected at low — 1 10004 



tidu 



Mossel Bay I Collected at low — ! i6jo 



tide. 



II. Palmipes novemradiatus. 



Although there is but a single specimen of this, I think I am 

 entitled to regard it as new, since no Palmipes is known with 

 more than five rays. 



Rays nine, disc very thin, thicker and carinate along the 

 dorsal line of each ambulacrum, cream- white in alcohol, yellower 

 along the ventral line of each ambulacrum ; the free part of eacli 

 ray obtusely conical. Dorsal ossicles small, set in ver\' regular 

 rows. 



R. = 28. r=2i. 



Cape Natal, 48 fathoms, fine sand.* 



* Since writing the above I have found two very much injured specimens 

 that are twice as large as my type, from off the Tugela, and one mucli smaller 

 off the Itongazi River, N.W. i W. 3 miles ; depth, 25 fathoms ; bottom, rocks 

 and stones." I have not altered my diagnosis, with which they agree.— 26th 

 May, 1904. 



