JAPANESE ASTEROroEA. 



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"Another specimen from station 5039, south east of Hokushn, 326 

 fathoms, is veiy different, having narrower and longer rays (11 = 3 r), large 

 paxillsG, with comparatively long pedicels, the summit of wliich lacks central 

 spinelets, and small actinolateral sj)inules. There are four furrow spines, as 

 in the Japan Sea examples. This is also figured. 



" Superambulacral plates are j)reaent. 



" Distribution. — Bering Sea, along the noi-th coast of America to Melville 

 Island ; through Barrow Strait to Greenland ; south along the east coast of 

 North America to Cape Cod ; west and noi-th of Spitzbergen to latitude 80° 

 3' N. ; south to Faroe Islands, and on the Norwegian coast from Kristian- 

 sund to Finmark ; Sx)itzbergen, Barents Sea, Mm^man coast, Matochkin 

 Strait, Nova Zembla, and northward ; Kara Sea as far as longitude 79° E. 

 From here to East Cape the species has not yet been recorded.^^ From Bering 

 Sea the species ranges south into the Sea of Japan, and on the American 

 side to CaHfornia, and is recorded from the mouth of the Gulf of California 

 (Ludwig) and Giilf of Panama (Ludwig), and imder the name procurator 

 from off the Chonos Ai'cliipelago, Cliile, south to entrance of Smyth Channel 

 (Sladen) ; off the east coast of southern South America as austrcdis (Sladen). 



" Specimens examined. — ^About eight hundred and eighty-three. 



" Specimens of Ctenodiscus crispatus examined. 



1) " The above is condensed from Ludwig, Fauna arctica, vol. 1, p. 4.51, where authorities 

 are cited." 



