80 DESCRIPTION OF THE GONIASTER ABBENSlS. 



bearing four or five elongated tubercles, two of which face the avenues. 

 These plates are each bordered by a series of granules. 



Eye-cover formed of one large tranversely-ovate tubercle terminating 

 the rays, and three or four smaller ones on each side, with a circle of 

 minute granules immediately surrounding the (red) eye. 



Dimensions, — Breadth across the disc 5J inches ; length of the arm 

 1 J inch ; breadth of arm at base ^^^ inch. 



Colour. — When fresh, Mr Maclaurin states it was of an orange-yellow, 

 which, with crimson-red, are the usual hues of the cushion-stars. Dried, 

 it is of a pale yellow. 



The above description of this beautiful star-fish is reprinted from 

 the " Annals and Magazine of Natural History." 



