2 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ASTEROIDEA. CRYPTOZONIA. 



SOLASTERIDAE. 

 Asterias endeca Linne Mantissa, 1771, p. 543. "in Ockano 



NORVEGICO." 



Crab Ledge, off Chatham, Mass., and northward ; low water 

 mark (Maine and northward) to far beyond the 50 fathom line. 



4. Crossaster papposus (Linn^) Miiller & Troschel. 



Common sun-star. 



Duncan & Sladen, Ecliinod. Arctic Sea, 1881, p. 36, pi. 3, figs. 

 1-4. 



Asterias papposa Linne, Syst. nat. ed. 12, 1767, p. 1098. "in 



O. EUROPAEO Su AsiATICO." 



Massachusetts Bay and northward ; low water mark (northerly) 

 to far beyond the 50 fathom line. 



PTERASTERIDAE. 



5. Pteraster pulvillus M. Sars. 



M. Sars. Overs. Norges Echinod., 1861, p. 62, pi. 6, figs 14- 

 18, pis. 7-8. "Manger." 



Ofl" Isle of Shoals, N. H., in 85 fathoms. 



6. Pteraster militaris (Miiller) Miiller & Troschel. 



M. Sars, Overs. Norges Ecliinod., 1861, p. 48, pi. 3, ligs. 

 8-9, pis. 4-6. 



Asterias militaris Miiller, Zool. Dan. Prod., 1776, p. 234. 



Massachusetts Bay and northward; in 10 fathoms or more. 



