JAPANESE ASTEEOIDEA. 413 



aus, class sich in ilu'er Mitte ein kurzer stiunj^fer, ruuder Höcker erhebt, 

 nicht höher als breite Poren einzeln. 



" Grösse : 3 Zoll, 



" Fundort : Ocean. Im Museum zu Lund." 



The note in the appendix referred to above on Steüaster equcstris runs 

 as follows p^IÜLLEE und Trosbhel, '42, p. 128] : 



" Diese Species ist nach neuern Materialien zu unterdrücken, indem sie 

 mit Stellaster Chüdreni zusammenfällt. Das Ikemplar von Eetziüs in Lund 

 hat seine Pedicellarien verloren." 



Acoording to the law of priority in vogue we have to adopt the name 

 of St. eqtiestris as the older. 



In his paper of 1847 [p. 7.] Gray makes some remarks on this 

 species in connection with the two species described by him. Under >S'fe//- 

 «sfer incei he says, " Tliis species is veiy like Stdlasfer CkUdreni, Gray, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1840, 278 ; Müller, Aster. 62. 128. t. 4. f . 3 ; 

 Asierias equeäris Eetzius, Diss. 12 ; but it is purphsh when dry ; the back 

 is tubercular; the whole surface is minutely granular; while the Japanese 

 si^ecies is always wliite, the back smooth, and the granules of the sui-face 

 are so minute and thin that they are very easily eroded, and the lower 

 marginal plates are more convex and the central ones much larger tlian the 

 othei-s." Again imder Stelhster helcheri he says, " Tliis species is intermediate 

 between ^S*. GMldreni and S. Incei, having the wliite coloiu' and the slender 

 aims of the former, and the convex back and tubercles of the latter, but 

 tlie tubercles are larger and fewer, and the arms are more slender, having 

 only a single series of plates between the marginal ones." 



DujARDnî and Hupe describe tliis species as follows [ '62, p. 407] : 

 "SteUaster de Cliildren. SteUaster CMIdreni.—GnxY. 

 [Kefei-ences to Gray, Müller and Troschel and PvETZius.] 

 "Espèce à corps pentagonal, dont le plus gi'and rayon égale deux fois 

 et un tiers le plus petit. Bras ti'ès pointus, séparés par un angle rentrant 

 arrondi. Piquants du siUon venti-al ou ambulacraire formant deux rangées, 

 ceux de la rangée interne sont disposés par six sm- chaque plaque, ceux du 

 milieu étant plus longs; la mngée externe porte des piquant larges, aplatis 



