﻿OIMIIOPSILA. 149 



Ophionereis dubia Lyman. 



Ophiolepis dubia Mull. & TnoscH. Syst. Asteriden, p. 94. 



Savigny. Descr. de I'EgyiJte (Audouin). 1809. PI. 1, Figs. 31-3'". 



The plate of Savigny is most excellent, and gives all the details of 

 the genus and species. The specimen doubtless came from the Red 

 Sea, as the species is not found in the Mediterranean. 



LIST OF SPECIMENS. 



Whence obtained. 



Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Sea. I I Jardin des Plantes. I Alcoholic 



OPHIOPSILA FoEBEs. 



Type of the Genus, O. aranea. 



Disk covered with very minute, overlapping, smooth scales. Eadial 

 shields small, or else quite covered. Teeth. Tooth-papillte. A few 

 side mouth-papillae. Arm-spines short, flattened, rather rough, numer- 

 ous, arranged along sides of side arm-plates. Inside tentacle-scale very 

 long, like a spatula. Lower arm-plates faintly indicated and sunken, 

 making a groove in which lie the long tentacle-scales. Two genital 

 slits beginnmg outside the mouth-shields. 



SPECIES HEREIN DESCRIBED. 



0. Jiiisei. 

 0. 



