1 78 s. GOTO : 



" Die Farbe ist rotlibranu. 



" Ich erliielt die Ai'fc zahlreich aus der Tokio- und Sagamibai und fisclita 

 sie bei der Provinz Tango in einer Tiefe von 10 m auf sclilammigem Boden, 

 zugleich mit Temnophurus toreumaticus ; kleinere Exemplars erhielt ich in 

 der Sagamibai aus ca. 100 m Tiefe. 



"Die Ai-t ist von de Loriol nach einem, walu'scheinlich von mir selbst 

 gesammelten, nicht sonderlich gut conservierten Exemplare beschrieben worden; 

 unpaare Marginalplatten kcmnte ich bei keinem meiner zahlreichen Exemplare 

 T)eobachten." 



FiSHER lias recently formed a new genus, which he calls Ctenopleura, to 

 receive the present species and Ct. astropsdinides, a new species from the 

 Philippines. The new genus is characterised as follows [Fisher, : 13, p. 



C08] : 



"Allied to Astropeden, but differing in having the gonads in a crowded 

 .series parallel to the marginal plates, and extending about a third the length 

 of ray; inferomarginal plates with a lateral, oblique, compact comb of 3 to 

 5, usually 4, slender appressed spines, closely resembling the lateral comb of 

 Persephmaster, and in addition 1 to 5 flattened appressed spines on the actinal 

 sm-face ; adambulacral plates with usually 4 or 5 furrow spines (or, on the second 

 and third plates, sometimes 6 or 7) instead of 3, the usual number in Astropeden ; 

 subambulacral spines small, none enlarged; often a fasciculate subambidacral 

 pedicellaria is present ; Polian vesicles 5. Other characters as in Astropsden. 

 "Type of the genus. — Ctenopleura astropcdinides, new species. 

 "This genus includes also Astropeden ludiülgl de Loriol, of Japan, in 

 which the gonads are aiTanged in series extending about a third the length 

 of the ray. In Astropeden the gonads form a single tuft on either side of 

 the interbracliial septum. The an-angement of the gonads in series will 

 separate Ctenopleura from Lepty chaster, BathyUaster, Psilaster, Blakiaster, 

 Astromesites, Ctenoplior aster, FersepJionaster, Tritonaster, and Pataglaster, while 

 the very restricted development of the actinal intermediate plates will dis- 

 tinguish it from other Astropectinidte having serially arranged gonads, such as 

 Anthostide, Tethyaster, ThrissamntUas, Dipsacaster, and Plutonastßr. The 

 armature of the marginals wiU separate Ctßnophura from Lonchoiaster and 



