204 Zoological Society. 



PATIRIA ? CRASSA. 



Pale yellow (dry), five-rayed; rays thick, rather tapering, about 

 half as long again as the diameter of the disc. Dorsal surface formed 

 of convex, subhemispherical ossicules, covered with crowded minute 

 spines. The oral surface with roundish groups of short, crowded 

 spines, like paxilli. 



Inhab. W. Australia. Mr. Gould. 



Pteraster 



CAPENSIS. 



Body subpentagonal, swollen, edge very thick, rounded; back 

 convex, reticulated, with rounded groups of very small ossicules at 

 the junction of the reticulations. 



Inhab. Cape of Good Hope. 



The spines of the ambulacra are like those of Pteraster militaris, 

 but they are longer, and the series of webbed spines on their outer 

 margins are scarcely longer than those of the ambulacra, while in 

 the northern species they are much longer and thicker, and there is 

 no appearance of the two long glassy spines at the angle of the 

 mouth, so distinct and peculiar in that species. 



Ganeria. 



Body flat, five-rayed. Back coriaceous, strengthened with nume- 

 rous small, linear and curved series of very short cylindrical spines. 

 Margin perpendicular, with two series of narrow ossicules, each 

 armed with a central, erect, linear series of short cylindrical spines. 

 Oral surface covered with diverging spines, one being placed on each 

 ossicule. Ambulacra linear, with two series of tentacles, and edged 

 with subulate spines, two on each ossicule, and with a series of di- 

 verging spines at the angles near the mouth. 



Ganeria falklandica. 



Body five-rayed ; rays as long as the diameter of the disc, rather 

 blunt at the tip. 



Inhab. Falkland Islands. Captain Sir James Ross. 



3. Description of a new species of Fulgora. 

 By Arthur Adams, Esq., R.N. 



Fulgora (Hotinus) Sultana, Adams and White. Fulg. thorace 

 superior e et rostro sanguineis ; elytris ad basin nigro-fuscis lineis 

 ochreis venosis, ad apicem ochreo-fuscis ; alis ad basim intense 

 carmineis, ad angulum analem roseis, ad apicem fuscum quatuor 

 vel quinque maculis rotundatis albis ornatis. 



Rostrum and upper surface of thorax of a rich blood-red colour. 

 The form of the beak intermediate between that of H. clavatus of 

 Westwood and H. pyrorhynchus of Donovan. Elytra blackish brown 

 at the base, traversed by ochraceous veins, with the tip ochraceous 

 brown. The wings with the base of a deep carmine fading to pale 

 pink towards the anal angle, the tips brown, with four or five roundish 

 white spots. Body above straw-coloured. 



