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inner ; their an-angement, however, being such as to leave httle doubt, when 

 comparison is made with the different portions of the fmTow in the largest 

 specimen, that they belong to one and the same species. On the marginal 

 plates of the smaller specimen there is only one spine; but on the larger 

 there seems indications here and there of the future development, out of the 

 plate armatm-e, of the larger companion spines. The pasdllae are large and 

 much simpler than in the adult, having fewer radii. 



" Although these juveniles were dredged on different occasions — one 

 being taken off the Korea at the depth of 54 fathoms, and the other offW. 

 coast of Niphou, 60 fathoms — they both agi-ee iu the singular circumstance 

 of having gorged a small bivalve ! and in each case apparently of the same 

 species. In the larger of the two young starfish the distention of the test 

 and the ]X)sition of the shell lead to the supposition that the diminutive 

 gourmand had fallen a martyr to the indulgence of its appetite ! 



" This Astrc/peden bears some resemblance to certain examples of the 

 northern form known as Astr. Midleri, M. & T.; regarding that, however, 

 as an extreme variation of A. irregularis, the differences presented by the 

 Asteroids at present under consideration are such as to justify the opinion 

 that they should be classed (provisionally at any rate) as distinct from that 

 species. It would not, however, be surprising to find, from the examination 

 of a larger supx)ly of material from this and other localities than is at present 

 available, that the above specific determination would require to be included 

 within the extended diagnosis of the type of A. irregularis, although the 

 distribution as at present known of the varietal forms of that species (e.g. 

 A. MiiUeri, A. ecUnulatus, etc.) would liardly lead to such a supposition." 



I*evsephonas1er asper, n. sp. 



(PL I, figs. 8-13.) 



This is a large species presenting characters intermediate 

 between P. misaUensis and P. triacanthus. Viewed from the 

 actinal side it looks much like P. misaUensis, especially in the 



