1 L2 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGED 



towards the corresponding series on the adjacent plate, and thus form a rough kind of 

 fasciole, if such a term were permissible for the short stumpy granules of which they are 

 composed. About four or five granules are present in each series, and one or sometimes 

 two similar and parallel lines of perpendicular and rather more robust granules occupy the 

 median area of each plate. 



The remaining portion of the actinal interradial area is covered with short stumpy 

 pofygonal papilliform granules, conically pointed at the tip ; and here and there one more 

 elongate and spine-like at well spaced distances apart. 



The mouth-plates bear two series of spines : one forming a straight line, and proceed- 

 ing along the side of the suture uniting the two plates, and the other following the 

 opposite outline of the plate and consequently forming a bent series. The six or seven 

 innermost spines, which fall in the furrow margin of the plate, are as long as the adambu- 

 lacral spines, the foremost spine of all being larger than the rest ; the three or four 

 remaining spines of this series which follow the line of the plate adjacent to the 

 neighbouring adambulacral plate are quite small and papilliform. The inner series, which 

 runs parallel to the median suture of the mouth-plates, is composed of about eight or 

 nine spines, the outermost of which are little more than granules, but the size gradually 

 increases until the innermost is about equal in length to the marginal series. 



Colour in alcohol, bluish grey over the paxillar area and mottled with the same on 

 the actinal interradial areas and the infero-marginal plates within the interbrachial arcs ; 

 the rest of the animal is a dirty ashy white. 



Locality. — Station 307. In the Messier Channel, between the western coast of 

 Chili and Wellington Island. January 4, 1876. Lat. 49° 24' 30" S., long. 74° 23' 

 30" W. Depth 140 fathoms. Blue mud. Surface temperature 53°-0 Fahr. 



Remarks. — This species is readily distinguished from Pseudar chaster tessellatus and 

 Pseudarchaster intermedins by its shorter rays and larger disk, the latter being also 

 Hatter. It is further specialised by the presence of the remarkable post-adambulacral 

 fascioles, which are not present in the other species. Pseudarchaster discus resembles 

 Pseudarchaster tessellatus in having a well-defined line of sharp spinelets along the 

 median line of the infero-marginal plates, and resembles Pseudarchaster intermedins in 

 having no prominent spine in the outer part of the adambulacral armature. 



2. Pseudarchaster tessellatus, n. sp. (PL XVII. figs. 3 and 4 ; PI. XVIII. figs. 9 and 10). 



Kays five. R = 48 mm. ; r = 16 mm. ; R = 3 r. 



Rays narrow and slightly tapering, rather abruptly pointed at the extremity, breadth 

 midway between the centre of the disk and the extremity, 8 mm. Interbrachial arcs 

 wide and well rounded. 



The paxillse of the abactinal area are regularly hexagonal, tabulate, and closely placed, 



