Ophiura grmiuldta. 595 



Synonymes. — Ophiura bellis, Flera.Brit. Anim., 488. ^sterias sphaem- 

 lata Pen., Brit. Zool., iv. 131. pi. 34. fig. 2.j Turt. Brit. Faun., 141. As- 

 terias aculeata Stew., Elem., i. 401.; Fleming, in Edin. Phil. Journ., viii. 

 298. 



Hab. Not uncommon in deep water. 



Description. — Body pentagonal or circular, flattened, 

 rough with small tubercles, and spotted all over with round 

 flat separate scales, minutely rough when magnified ; margin 

 rounded, and, as well as the oval spaces between the rays, 

 rough with tubercles like those of the back. Rays 5, tapered, 

 convex dorsally, and covered with oval scales divided from 

 one another by a ring of small obtuse warts ; scales of the 

 under surface square, rather distant, with a pore in each in- 

 terspace ; lateral spines shorter than the breadth of the ray, 

 smooth, obtuse, five in a series, and at the ventral base of 

 each series there is a white lateral scale. Diameter of the 

 body half an inch or a little more; length of the rays l£in. 

 or 2 in. Colour various, generally brown, the rays annu- 

 lated with orange-coloured bands. All the figures I have 

 seen of this pretty species are very bad, and do not exhibit its 

 essential characters. 



48. Ophiu v ra granula^ta. (Jig. 67.) 

 Spec. Char. — Body scaleless, covered with close-set mi- 

 nute granules. 



Synonyme. — Ophiura granulata Fleming, in Edin. Phil. Journ., viii. 

 301.; Flem. Brit. Anim., 488. 



