Boone, Echinodermata, Cruises of "Eagle" and "Ara," 1921-28 103 



Selsk. Skrifter, 5th Raekke, p. 66, 1869. — Duncan and Sladen, 

 Mem. Echinod. Arctic Sea, etc., p. 69, pi. V, figs. 1-6, 1881. 



Astrophyton arcticum Duncan and Sladen, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 ser. 4, vol. 20, p. 468, 1877. 



Gorgonocephalus agassizii Sladen, Rept. Ophiuroidea, Voy. "Chal- 

 lenger" Zool., vol. V, pt. 14, p. 264, pi. 33, fig. 26, pi. 36, 1882.— 

 Fischer, Die Osterreich Polarstation, Jan Maj^en, Bd. Ill, p. 37, 

 1886. — Greig, Ophiuroidea, Norwegian North Atlantic Exped., 

 1876-78 ; Zool., XXII, vol. 5, p. 35, pi. Ill, figs. 20, 21, 1893.— 

 Koehler, Res. Campag. Sci. du yacht "I'Hirondelle," Fasc. XII, 

 p. 59, 1898 ; Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 26, p. 102, 1901, Paris.— 

 Greig, Fauna Arctica, Bd. I, Lief 2, p. 271, 1900.— Mortensen, 

 Th., Medd. Gronland, Bd. 29, p. 88, 1909, Copenhagen.— H. L. 

 Clark, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish. vol. XXII, p. 561, pi. 6, figs. 35, 36, 

 pi. 7, figs. 46, 47, 1902 ; Occas. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 VII, pt. 2, p. 7, 1905. — Schmitt, Mon. de l'ile Anticosti, Paris, 

 p. 247, 1904. — Greig, Rept. Second Norweg. Arctic Exped. in 

 Fram, 1898-1902, p. 23, 1907. 



Gorgonocephalus agassizi Doderlein, Wiss. Meeres Untersuch, Bd. 

 IV, Heft 2, p. 227, 1900.— Michailovsky, Ann. Mus. Zool. Peters- 

 bourg, vol. 7, p. 498, 1902. — Kalischevsky, Mem. Acad. Imp. 

 Soc. St. Petersbourg, ser. 8, vol. 18, no. 4, p. 21, 1907. — Koehler, 

 Bull. Sci. France et Belg., vol. 61, p. 349, 1907 ; Res. Campag. Sci. 

 du yacht "Princess Alice," fasc. XXXIV, p. 206, pi. IX, fig. 1, 

 color plate, 1909. 



Genus : ASTROPHYTON Muller and Troschel. 

 Astropliyton muricatum (Lamarck). 



Type : Lamarck 's type came from the "West Indies and was deposited 

 in the Paris Museum. 



Distribution: Found from Charleston, S. C, southward to the 

 Tortugas and through the West Indian region. Littoral to 278 fms. 



Material examined: One large specimen, taken on the Florida 

 Reefs, 1923. One larger dry specimen, dredged off the south coast 

 of Cuba, in deep water, by the "Ara." Another large dry specimen, 

 dredged in 30 fms., 14 miles S. "W. of Marquesas Keys, Florida, March, 

 1924. 



Color: In life this basket-fish is usually bright orange-yellow, or 

 yellowish brown. 



