298 Asterias aranciaca. 



ulcer follows, which frequently extends to the bones, and then 

 requires the amputation of the limb. 



Art. IV. Illustrations in British Zoology. By George John- 

 ston, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edin- 

 burgh. 



j4ste v rias aranci v aca. (j%. 43.) 

 43 



1. ^4ste n rias aranciaca. Rays 5, lanceolate, flattened, one 

 third longer than the diameter of the body ; the margins with 

 a neat border of equal granulated tubercles; back covered 

 with very close, even, small, tubercles. 



Asterias aranciaca Lin., Syst., 1100.; Mull. Zool. Dan. Prod., 234, no. 

 2831.; Lam. Anim. s. Vert., ii. 563.; Flem. Brit. Anim., 486. A. irre- 

 gularis Penn.y Brit. Zool., iv. 128. A. equestris Barb., Gen. Verm., 

 86. pi. 10. fig. 7. (pessima) ; Turt. Gmel., iv. 132, but not of his Brit. 

 Fauna ; Bradley Phil. Ac. of Works of Nature, pi. 4. fig. 1, 2. ; Ency- 

 clop. Method., tab. 110. fig. 2. 4., and tab. 111. fig. 3,4. 



