g BULLETIN 76, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Miillcr ami Troscliel, in their System der Asterideii, 1842, described Astera- 

 cantiiinn murgaritihr, which is spionymous with Pisaster ochraceus (Brandt). 



In Middentloril"'s Reise in den aussersten Norden und Osten Siberiens, 1851, 

 Ilrandt described, from tlic Okhotsk region, Asteracanthium ochotense, near A. rubens, 

 witli two varieties (a) macrohrachia, (&) brachybrachia. 



In 1857, Edward Grube, in Ms Beschreibungen neuer oder weniger bekannter 

 Seestcrnc und Seeigel, described and figured Asteropsis imhricata, collected by 

 Dr. Wilhelm von Bock at Sitka. 



In 1S57, WilUani Stimpson, in the Boston Journal of Natural History, volume 

 G. described' Asterw^^ gigantca, Tomales Bay, California, Asterias brevispina, San 

 P'rancisco Bay (botli PimMer), Linckia lemusaila (Ilenricia), Puget Sound, and the 

 new genus and species Mediaster lequalis, Puget Sound. 



Tills article was followed in 1862 by a paper in the Proceedings of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, volume 8, in wiiidi the following west coast forms were 



diagnosed: 



Asterias acermta, Bering Strait. 



Asterias ieqiuilis, Monterey. 



Astfrias capiiata, San Diego. 



Asterias conferta, Puget Sound. 



Asterias cribraria, north of Bering Strait. 



Asterias fissispina. Shoal Water Bay, Oregon. 



Asterias hexactls, Puget Sound. 



Asterias liltkenii, coast of Oregon. 



AsteriAis paucispiTia, Puget Sound. 



Asterias troschelii, Puget Sound. 

 In 1865 Edward Grubo in an article entitled, Ucbcr einige Seesteme des Bres- 

 huier Museums, described, without locality, Clisetaster californixus. This species is 

 possibly Ilenricia leinuscula. 



In the following year he diagnosed Luidia foliolata (the L. foliata of Sladen), 

 without locality." 



In July, 1807, A. E. Yerrill pubiislicd an important article On the Geograpliical 

 Distribution of Echinoderms of the Pacific Coast of America.'' 



The following species are listed from Sitka: Asteropsis imhricata Grube, 

 Patiria miniata (Brandt), Solaster decemradiatus (Brandt) Stimpson, Pycnopodia 

 helianthoides (Brandt), Asterias epichlora Brandt, Asterias ochracea Brandt. The 

 following are stated to occur in Puget Souml and along the coast to Cape Mendocino: 

 ifediastcr sequalis Stimpson, Patiria miniata, CribreUa leviuscula (Stimpson), 

 Pycnopodia helianthoides, Asterias epichlora, A. ochracea, A. conferta Stimpson, 

 A-fissispiim Stimpson, A. liitkenii Stimpson, A. paucispina Stimpson, A. troschelii 

 Stimpson, A. hexaxtis Stimpson. The following species are listed as occurring 

 between Cape Mendocino and San Diego: Mediaster xqualis, Patiria miniata, 

 Pycnopodia helianthoides, Asterias gigantea Stimpson, A. brevispina Stimpson, A. 

 ochracea, A. capiiata Stimpson, A. sequalis Stimpson. 



For nearly ten j^eurs no new species were cliaracterized. Perrier in his Revision 

 i\c< Stcli6rides (1875) iliagnosed two new forms, Asterias brachiata from the Gulf 



o 43 Jahresber. schles. Ges. vaterl. CuUur, Brcslau, 1866, p. 59. 

 6 Trans. Connecticut Acad. Aria and Sci., vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 323. 



