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Genus CHORIASTER Lutken. 



Choriaster Lutken, Catalog des Museum Godeffroy, 1869, No. 4, p. 35. 

 (Also 1871, p. 243.) 



, CHORIASTER GRANULATUS Lutken. 



Choriaster (jranulaUis Lutken, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 4, p. 35, 1871, 

 p. 243.— Goto, 1914, p. 604, pi. 17, fig. 263 ; pi. 18, figs. 264-269. 



Specinnen examined. — Togian Bay, Togian Island, Gulf of Tomini, 

 Celebes. Dutch East Indies, 



Distribution. — Pelew and Fiji Islands; off Zamboanga, Mindanao; 

 Celebes; New Zealand; Okinawa Island, Japan (Goto). 



Remarhs. — This specimen constitutes a new record for the species. 

 E=90 mm., r=35 to 37 mm. Furrow spines 7 or 8; subambulcral 

 spines 3 or 4, rarely 5, in a single series, followed a curved series 

 of granules, inclosing sometimes 1 to several small granules and 

 1 or 2 small upright 2- jawed pedicellariae. A large 2- jawed lanceo- 

 late pedicellaria stands at the inner end of the subambulacral series. 



Goto has p.ublished (1914) a description of this species, with fig- 

 ures, and has given also a useful reprint of the literature referring 

 to it. 



Family LINCKIIDAE Perrier.^ 



Genus DISSOGENES Fisher. 



Dissogenes Fisher, 1913c, p. 212. Type, D. styracia Fislier. 



Diagnosis. — Disk large, slightly inflated; rays moderately long 

 and slender; whole body covered with small granules obscuring the 

 outlines of all plates except the marginal, which are confined to 

 side wall of body, and are unarmed except for 1 to 3 small central 

 spines on the first 2 or 3 superomarginals; abactinal plates of 2 

 kinds, irregular mostly convex primary plates with 2 to 4 semicircu- 

 lar excavations in margin overlying and bound together by secondary 

 elliptical or oblong connecting ossicles, all very irregular in arrange- 

 ment; primary plates of disk with small rigid central upright trun- 

 cate spine ; actinal intermediate areas with about 4 chevrons of simi- 

 lar longer spines; actinal intermediate plates extending in a single 

 series nearly to end of ray, and a second series two-thirds the length 

 of ray; adambulacral armature with 4 or 5, sometimes 3, prominent 

 slender furrow spines on a nearly straight furrow margin; subam- 

 bulacral spines 2 on disk, 1 on rays, a little longer and much stouter 

 than furrow si)ines. Papulae single, irregular, abactinal. 



^ For a synopsis of genera see Fisher, IQlld, p. 241. As here pointed out, Ophidias- 

 teridae is the oldest name for the family, but Perrier's shorter name has been used by 

 everyone since 187."), includins Vcrrill until 1914 (Verrill, 1914a, p. 308). As strict 

 priority is not insisted upon in family names, I see little utility in changing such a well- 

 known and long-used name. 



