﻿AMPIIIURA PUGETANA. 

 LIST OF SPECIMENS. 



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Locality. 



Collected. 



Museum of Comparative Zoijlorjij. 



Charleston, S. C. 

 ! St. Thomas, W. I. 



Univereity Museum, 



Copenhagen. 

 Prof. Afrassiz. 

 A. H. Riise. 



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Smithsonian Institution. 

 St. Thomas, W. I. I I A. H. Riise. I Alcoholii 



Amphiura pugetana Ltman. 



Amphiura pugetana Lyman. Proceed. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., VII. p. 193. 



Sjjecial Harks. — Anns long ; often eight times the diameter of the 

 disk ; a hght hne running along their upper side. 



Description of a Specimen. — Diameter of disk, 3.5°"° ; from outer 

 edge of mouth-shield to outer corner of opposite mouth-sht, 1.5°"° ; 

 greatest width of arm without spmes, .T""' ; length of arms, 24.5""' ; 

 distance from outer side of mouth-shield to inner points of mouth- 

 papillse, to that between outer corners of mouth-slits, .6 : .5. Teeth 

 four, stout, flat, rather thick, squarish, with cutting edge curved. 

 Mouth-shields nearly diamond-shaped, the outer and side angles slightly 

 rounded ; length to breadth, .3 : .2. Side mouth-shields large, thick, and 

 somewhat swelled ; meeting within, closely joined to surrounding parts. 

 Under arm-plates five-sided, with the fifth angle directed inward ; length 

 to breadth, near base of arm, .5 : .4. Side arm-plates strong and well 

 developed, meeting above and below. Upper arm-plates bounded within 

 by a strong arch, without by a slight curve ; their lateral sides short ; 

 length to breadth, near base of arm, .5 : .7 ; they do not quite touch 

 each other. Scales of disk mostly rounded, smaller below than above ; 

 those above of pretty even size, with a few little ones ; near edge of 

 disk, about 50 to a square mm. ; those toward the centre larger. Radial 

 shields closely joined for their whole length, oval, with the inner end 

 pointed ; length to breadth, .7 : .3. Arm-spines three, sometimes four 

 on joints close to disk ; evenly tapering, moderately stout, of even 

 lengths ; length near disk, .5°'"'. Tentacle-scales two, small and rounded, 

 placed obliquely side by side. Color, in alcohol : disk, above, light 



