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absent apparent in nohlh's and eanlis,- in grandis it seems to be 

 variable, but the plates are usually irregular, so that it is hard to 

 trace the series. In g'dherti the paxillae are fairly high, though the 

 spinelets are short, and at the base of the ray the marginal plates 

 are separated by fascicles, less aycII developed than in Koremaster. 



KOREMASTER EVAILUS SPICULATUS, new subspecies. 



Plate 33. fiii'. 1 : phito 34, fig. 1 ; plate 40, figs. 3. 3«-/. 



Diagnosis. — Very close to the type-species, but differing in having 

 more elongate and conical pedicellariae with less modified jaws, 

 fewer pedicellariae. terete furrow spines, slightly wider mouth plates, 

 and less compressed first adambulacral plates. E=44 mm., r=12 

 mm., R=3.66 r. General form slightly variable, the rays either 

 tapering directly from abruptly rounded interbrachial angle, or 

 arcuately. the interbrachimn being oj^en and rounded. 



Description. — Abactinal surface and paxillae very similar to those 

 of the type, but the pedicellariae are either few or entirely absent. 

 They seem to occur only around the edge of the paxillar area next 

 to the marginal plates, and they have the much slenderer and pro- 

 portionately higher jaws- less modified. In some pedicellariae the 

 jaws are very nearly like short sharp spines, such as occur on paxillae. 



Abactinal plates irregularly elliptical on rays to subcircular at 

 renter of disk, where they are close together, but spaced on the rays; 

 -l or .'i papulae about each plate: the papulae are absent from end of 

 Ywy and center of disk; abactinal integument thin and flexible. 



Marginal plates in proportions and armature practically like those 

 of ecaulus. One specimen only has a second much shorter accessory 

 spinule on the inner edge of most of the superomarginal plates. 

 Superomarginals 30 in type. Terminal plate shorter and blunter 

 than in evaulns, being only a little longer than wide, but is never- 

 theless variable. Some approach very close to evaulus. Inferomar- 

 ginals rarely with 2 spines side by side. 



Actinal intermediate plates extending to about the tenth or 

 eleventh inferomarginal or nearly half the ray — proportionately far- 

 < her than in evaulus. The odd interradial series is sometimes not so 

 (M iflent as in evaulus., owing to its having been crowded to one side, 

 but usually it is perfectly plain. The plates are either wholly with- 

 out pedicellariae or Avith a variable number. These have 3 to 5 

 spiniform jaws, which are loss modified than in evaulus. They vary 

 in form from unmodified spines to elongate curved spatulate swollen 

 |):ipillae. Only in one specimen do they approach closely those of 

 '■r(n/lu.s, but this specimen also has pedicellariae with the elongate 

 spinifoi-m ty)">(> of ja\\'. -\ <•( mparison of figures will Ix'st illustrate 



