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A specimen from St. WS 78 is labelled "mauve colour dorsally"; while those from 

 St. WS 776 exhibited the following colour range: violet (16), white (7), purple (4), pink 

 orange (3), blue (i). 



Distribution. Region of the Straits of Magellan and adjacent coasts on both 

 Atlantic and Pacific sides; Tierra del Fuego; South Georgia; low tide to 636 m. 



Genus Granaster Perrier 



Granaster Perrier, 1894, pp. 129, 133. Type Stichaster nutrix Studer. — Fisher, 1923, p. 604; 1930, 



p. 232. 

 Hemiasterias Verrill, 1914, p. 362, footnote. Type Granaster biseriatus Koehler. 



Granaster nutrix (Studer) 

 Stichaster nutrix Studer, Jalirb. wiss. Anst. Hamburg, u, 1885, p. 1554, pi- i, fig. 50-^; pi. 2, fig. 



Granaster nutrix Perrier, 1S94, p. 129. — Koehler, 1923, p. 53. 



Granaster biseriatus Koehler, 1906, p. 11, pi. i, fig. 6; pi. 4, fig. 42; 1908, p. 565, pi. 5, figs. 48, 49; 



1912, p. 29, pi. 3, fig. 2; pi. 6, fig. I.— Fisher, 1930, p. 233. 

 Hemiasterias biseriata Verrill, 1914, p. 362. 



St. 141. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia, 17-27 m., i specimen. 



St. 166. South-east point of Paul Harbour, Signy Island, South Orkneys, shore collecting, 

 2 specimens. 



St. 179. Melchior Island, SchoUaert Channel, Palmer Archipelago, 4-10 m., rock, 5 specimens. 



St. 1941. Leith Harbour, South Georgia, 55-22 m., i specimen. 



St. WS 56. Larsen Harbour, Diygalski Fjord, South Georgia, 2 m., kelp roots, 7 specimens. 



St. WS 65. Undine Harbour (North), South Georgia, i m., kelp roots, i specimen. 



St. MS 10. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia, 26 m., i specimen. 



St. MS 71. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia, 110-60 m., i specimen. 



Cumberland Bay. South Georgia, November 1929, i specimen. 



The largest specimen (St. 166) with R 18 mm. was bright yellow in life. 



Koehler (191 2) has given good photographic figures. The genus appears to be an 

 isolated one. Possibly it is related to Calvasterias. 



The species has been reported from South Georgia, South Orkneys, Graham Land, 

 low tide to 250 m. 



SPECIES FROM AFRICA AND AUSTRALIA 



Astropecten irregularis africanus Koehler 



Astropecten africanus Koehler, Ann. Vlnstitut Oceajiographique, 11, fasc. 5, 1912, p. 5, pi. 2, figs. 8, 9. 

 Astropecten irregularis africanus Doderlein, 1917, pp. 47, 73, 168. 



St. 299. Tarrafal, San Antonio, Cape Verde Islands, 7-1 1 m., i specimen. 



The specimen measures R 28 mm., r 7 mm., R = 4r; br at second superomarginal, 

 7 mm., width of paxillar area 3 mm. Heretofore reported from west coast of Africa 20° 

 to 24° N (Anguin Bank, Cape Blanco, Rio de Oro). 



