2G8 A. S. PACKARD, Jr., ON THE RECENT 



Solaster endeca (Linn.) Forbes. 



Taken with the preceding species at Long Island, Cateau Bay, in fifteen fathoms. Rare. 



Cribella oculata Forbes. 



Salmon Bay, Straits of Belle Isle, in fifteen fathoms, on a sandy bottom ; not common. 



Asterias groenlandicus Steenstr. 

 Not uncommon at Caribou Island and Square Island in fifteen fathoms. 



Asterias vulgaris Stimps. MSS., Verrill, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat Hist., 1866, p. 347. 

 Asteracanthion rubens Mull, and Trosch. 



Common just below low-water mark. The largest specimens from eight to ten inches 

 across. 



Asterias (Asteracanthion) polaris Mcll et Trosch. 

 Occurring with, and as common as, the preceding, if not more so. Often taken at 

 Hoedale es P eciaI1 ^ the y°™S> ™ from ten to fifteen fathoms ; Square Island and 



Asterias n. sp. ? 



Large specimens, measuring 20 inches across, frequently occurred in pools at low- 

 water mark. The color in life was a light greenish hue, mottled with reddish brown. 



Euryechinus drobachiensis Verrill, Proc. Bost. Soc. 1866, p. 340. 

 Toxopneustes driibachiensis Agass. E. granulalm Say. 



Specimens measuring four inches across were often taken at low-water mark. It extends 

 to fifty fathoms, at which depth it was frequently dredged on the Bank in the Straits of 

 Belle Isle, where the specimens were uniformly small : but after a careful study I cannot 

 see any permanent specific differences. I cannot see that it differs at all from individ- 

 uals collected during the past summer at Eastport. 



„ .. ,. „ Eehinarachnius parma Gray. 



b,. atlanticus Gray. 



^ Abundant and large on sandy bottoms in from two to fifteen fathoms; Straits of Belle 



Iiophothuria Fabricii Verrill, 1. c, p. 354. 

 Psolus Fabricii Liitken. 



Two were taken in fifteen fathoms on pebbles in Esquimaux Bay. 



Pentacta calcigera Sumps. 

 Lucumana Koreni Liitken. 



_ One was taken in fifteen fathoms, sand, in Salmon Bay ; common at Belles Amours in 

 eight fathoms, mud ; Cateau Harbor, fifteen fathoms, sand. 



Pentacta frondosa Jaeger. 

 One specimen was thrown upon the beach. 



