﻿OPIIIOCOMA ERINACEUS. 



LIST OF SPECIMENS. 



85 



Locality. 



Whence obtained. 



996 

 997 

 987 

 990 



999 

 98-t 

 985 

 1018 



1004 

 1101 

 1077 



Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Apr. 



Mch. 1858. 

 Feb. 1856. 

 Ap. 24, 1858. 



Mh! 15", 1858. 



Smithsonian Institution. 



12-t- Tortugas, Fla. 

 12-i-' Florida Keys. 

 6 I Tortusras, Fla. 

 4 Cape Florida. 

 124- Tortugas, Fla. 

 Tortugas, Fla. 

 Cape Florida. 

 West Indies. 



Aspinwall. 



St. Thomas, W. I. 



St. Thomas, W. I. 



May, 1858. 

 Mh. 18, 1858, 



Capt. Coutlioiiy. 

 Prof. Agassiz. 

 J. E. Mills and 



G. Wurdeman. 

 Prof. Agassiz. 

 J. E. Mills. 

 T. Lyman. 

 J. E. Mills. 

 E. Ilabiih. 

 J. E. Mills. 

 Dr. D. F. Weinland. 

 J. E. Mills. 

 Dr. D. F. Weinland. 

 A. H. Riisc. 

 G. Wurdeman. 

 Prof. Agassiz. 

 University Museum, 



Copenhagen. 



J. E. Blills. 

 G. Wurdeman. 



S.H.'s'cudder'. 



Dr. Whitehurst. 

 G. Wurdeman. 



Capt. Woodbury. 

 G. Wurdeman. 

 University Museum, 



Copenhagen. 

 Kev. T. Powell. 

 A. H. Riise. 

 A. H. Riise. 



Dried. 

 Alcoholic 



Ophiocoma erinaceus Mull. & Teosch. 



Ophiocoma erinaceus Mull. & Teosch. Syst. Asteriden, p. 98. 

 Ophiocoma tartarea Lyman. Proceed. Boston Soe. Nat. Hist., VHI. p. 78. 

 Ophiocoma erinaceus LiJTKEN. Addit. ad Hist. Oph., p. 164. 



Special Marks. — Black or dark brown ; arms from three and a 

 half to five and a half times as long as diameter of disk ; two tentacle- 

 scales ; interbrachial spaces below not granulated. 



Description of a Specimen. — Diameter of disk, 25"""' ; breadth of 

 arm without spines, 4""°- ; length of arm, 132'""- ; tooth-papilla3 fourteen 

 to eighteen, sometimes in transverse rows of three, sometimes irregularly 



