4 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ASTEROIDEA. CKYPTOZONIA. 



ASTERIIDAE. 



11. AsTERiAS FORBESi (Desor) Verrill. 

 Common starfish. 



Clark, Bull. U. S. fish comm. for 1902, 1904, vol. 22, p. 552, 

 pi. 1, figs. 1-2 ; pi. 4, figs. 14-15. 



Asteracanthion forbesi Desor, Proc. Boston soc. nat. hist., 1848, 

 vol. 3, p. 67. "eight fathoms in the Vineyard Sound." 



Long Island Sound to Casco Bay, Maine; low water mark to 

 27 fathoms. 



12. Asterias littoralis (Stimpson) Verrill. 



Verrill, Proc. Boston soc. nat. hist., 1866, vol. 10, p. 349. 

 Asteracanthion litt07-alis Stimpson, Invert. Grand Maiian, 

 1853, p. 14. "middle region of the littoral zone." 



Casco Bay, Maine, and northward ; low water mark to 23 

 fathoms. 



13. Asterias tenera Stimpson. 



Stimpson, Proc. Boston soc. nat. hist.. 1862, vol. 8, p. 269. 

 "in twenty fathoms, in Massachusetts Bay, ten miles 

 SOUTH OF Cape Ann." 



Clark, Bull. U. S. fish comm. for 1902, 1904, vol. 22, p. 554, 

 pi. 2, figs. 5-7 ; pi. 4, figs. 20-21. 



Asterias compta Stimpson, op. cit., p. 270. 



Cold water south of Rhode Island, east and north ; in 10 fath- 

 oms or more. 



14. Asterias vulgaris Verrill. 



Northern starfish. 



Verrill, Proc. Boston soc. nat. hist., 1866, vol. 10, p. 347. 

 "from Cape Cod and South Shoals, Mass., to Labrador." 



