NO. 1944. NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF STARFISHES— FISHER. 647 

 ANTHENOEDES GRANULOSUS, new species. 



Similar in general appearance to A. epixanthus (Fisher) but dif- 

 fering in having much more numerous and coarser abactinal and 

 marginal granules; numerous small abactinal and actinal interme- 

 diate, bivalved pedicellariae; more numerous adambulacral pedicel- 

 larise, which are relatively larger; slender, and slightly more numerous 

 furrow spines, and more numerous oral spines. R = 79 mm., r = 39 

 mm., R = 2 r; breadth of ray at interbrachium, 43 mm.; disk very 

 large Avith open, arcuate interbrachia and short, tapering, bluntly 

 pointed rays; whole surface overlaid by soft membrane, obscuring 

 the underlying plates, especially the abactinals, which are covered 

 with spaced granules larger than in epixajitJius; marginal plates 

 covered all over with spaced granules, coarsest on outer part of plate, 

 and more numerous than in A. epixanthus; no marginal spines; 

 actinal intermediate granules coarse and numerous; furrow spines 

 slender, compressed, 6 to 9, the adoral end of the plate with a large, 

 slender, forcipiform pedicellaria, and 1 to 3 more on the actinal 

 surface; subambulacral spines, 1 to 4, according to the number of 

 pedicellariss, which they partly replace; oral spines 13 to 15, wdth 

 several suboral pedicellarise and numerous suboral granules. 



Type.— Cat. No. 30559, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Station 5626, between Gillolo and Kayoa Islands, 

 Molucca Islands, 265 fathoms, gray mud, fine sand. 



ANTHENOIDES LITHOSORUS, new species. 



Closely related to A. granulosus, but differing in having the coarse 

 superomarginal granules confined to the center of plate, surrounded 

 by a conspicuous area with only spaced microscopic grains; abactinal 

 granules fine, subequal, thick on center of disk, becoming smaller 

 and more spaced as the margin is approached, fewer than in granu- 

 losus, smaller, and the central granules of the plate not larger than 

 the others; superomarginal plates more tumid, the width remaining 

 the same to within 4 or 5 plates of end of ray (regularly decreasing 

 in length in granulosus); furrow spines 9 or 10; oral spines 15 or 16. 

 11 = 80 mm., r = 44 mm., R = about 1.8 r. General form similar to 

 that of granulosus but the rays are thicker toward the end o^ving 

 to the heavier superomarginals, the last 6 or 7 pairs of which are in 

 contact medially. 



Type.— Cat. No. 30560, U.S.N.M. 



Type-locality. — Station 5301, China Sea, vicinity of Hongkong 

 (lat. 20° 37' N.; long. 115° 43' E.), 208 fathoms, gray mud, sand; 

 bottom temperature, 50.5° F. 



The abactinal area is overlaid by a thick membrane which in dry- 

 ing allows the small granules to be seen. These are subequal and 

 about the size of the smallest granules of granulosus. Only in the 



