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Ophiiira granuldta. 



Hab. — Kirkwall Bay, Orkney, Rev. Dr. Fleming. Coast 

 of Berwickshire, plentiful in one or two places, but very local. 



Description. — Body circular, flat, of a uniform dirty brown 

 colour, the back covered with granules, which may be rubbed 

 off, exposing a paler surface; margin rounded; ventral inter- 

 spaces triangular, tumid, grey, covered with minute over- 

 lapping scales : mouth pentagonal, its triangular processes 

 edged with smooth scales, and there is a large somewhat cor- 

 date scale between the origins of the rays : rays 5, qua- 

 drangular, of the same colour as the body, the spines paler 

 and rather longer than the breadth of the ray ; the dorsal 

 scales smooth, the middle one somewhat triangular, rounded 

 on the outer edge, overlapped by a smaller one on each side ; 

 ventral scales square, rounded on the outer angles and sinu- 

 ated in the centre; spines 6 in each series, roughened with 

 spinous teeth pointing upwards. Diameter of the body seven 

 tenths ; length of the rays from two to three inches. 



Berwick upon Tweed. 



