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keine Stacheln (mit Ausnahme clor whizigen, die den After umstellen) und 

 Sfüne unteren Randplatten sind fast alle mit einem (selten zwei) kleinen 

 Stachel ausgerüstet, entsprechend der SLADEN'schen Fig. 6, 



" Der Ansicht Loriol's imd Sladen's, dass G. Userrata \. Martens nur 

 eine Jngendform der G. eavinifera ist, kann ich mich nur anschliesseu. 



" An der Madreporenplatte Hess sich feststellen, dass sie ein selbstän- 

 dige Skelettplatte ist, die nach aussen von der betreffenden primären 

 Interradialplatte liegt. Gymnastcria gehört demnach wie walirscheinlich 

 alle Gymnasteriiden zu den euplacoten Seesternen. 



" In Betreff des Baues der Pedicellarien, die bei dem vorliegenden 

 gi-össeren Exemplare nur zwischen den inneren und äusseren Fm-chenstacheln 

 vorkommen, stimmen meine Beobachtungen mit denen von Leipoldt 

 überein." 



FiSHEPi simpl}' mentions this species [:0G, p. 1087] remarking, " This 

 species is recorded from the Sandwich Islands by Perkier (Revision des 

 Stellendes, p. 286), the specimens being in the British Museum. Sladen 

 likewise records it in the report on the starfishes collected by the Ghaïlemjer 

 expeditiou (p. 357), very likely from the same specimens. No examples 

 were secm'ed by the Albatross expedition." It must be remarked that the 

 specimens which Perrier described from the British Museum were the 

 original types of Gray, wliile those that Sladen described were collected 

 by the Challenger. Needless to say that Sladen must have had the 

 original examples of Gray for comparison {<f. svpra, p. ()2G). 



Clark [:08, p. 281] mentions one specimen from Sorong, New Guinea, 

 " 130 mm. in diameter, yellowish brown (dried). Barbour collection." 



I have examined two specimens. One has R = 30 mm., r= 

 12 mm., R ; r=2.5 ; the other has R=64 mm., r=23 mm., and 

 R:r=:2.8. The smaller specimen is from Nalia, Okinawa Island. 

 For the larger specimen the locality is not recorded, bnt there is 

 no reasonable doubt that it is somewhere from the Ryûkyù Islands. 



The body is regularly star- shaped, the disk comparatively 

 largo and the arms are very distinct. The whole surface of the 



