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of Georgia," luiJ A.ikria'i vancouverl from Esquimalfc Harbor, Vancouver Island. 

 The latter was briefly described in tlie Annals and Magazine of Natural History.'' 

 Here also was named, with very insuflicicnt description, Asterias douglasi, which had 

 been confusetl, in the Britisli Museum, with the true Asterias Tcatherinx Gray, from 

 the mouth of the Columbia. A. douglasi was without locality and probably does 

 not belong to our region. It is fully described in the Revision. 



In an article entitled fitude sur la repartition g^ographique des Ast^rides ' 

 Perrier named but did not diagnose Luidia califomica, a species mentioned but not 

 described by Lvitken.'' The name is a nomen nudum. 



A. E. Verrill, in 1880, described Archastrr (now Lwuliaster) dawsoni from off 

 the Queen Charlotte Islands, 111 fathoms, Solaster stimpsoni from Ramsay Island, 

 British Columbia, and S. dawsoni from 8 to 1.5 fathoms Virago Sound, British 

 Columbia, in an article by J. F. Whiteaves entitled : Appentlix C. On Some Marine 

 Invertebrata from the Queen Charlotte Islands.' 



In Ray's report of the international polar expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, 

 1885, John Murdoch listeil six species of starfishes, of wluch one was described as 

 new, Leptasterias ardica, from off Point Franklin, 13i fathoms. 



In the followng year H. Ludwig published the first important article dealing 

 with the ecliinodcrms of Bering Sea. He Usted six stai-fishes, of which Ctenodiscus 

 krausei { = crispatus) and Pteraster aporus { = militarls) were characterized as new./ 



P. de Loriol, in Notes pour servir a I'etude des ficliinodermes, II, described two" 

 new species collected by Alphonse Forrer at Santa Cruz, California: Asterias forreri 

 and A. exquisita. 



In 1888 J. E. Ives described Pteraster tesselatus from Kaiiiak Island.* In 1892 

 the same \vriter pubhshed privately a List of the Echinoderms and Crustacea in the 

 Cabinet of Frederick Steams, Detroit, Michigan. On page ii is a list of west coast 

 Asteroidea, but no new species. I am indebted to Prof. A. E. Verrill for information 

 concerning this paper. 



In the Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum for 1894, page 268, A. E. 

 Verrill characterized Acantliarchaster, new genus, with Arcliaster dawsoni for type. 



P. de Loriol in a fifth paper of his Notes pour servir a I'etude des Echinodermes' 

 admirably described and figured seven species from Saanich Inlet, Vancouver Island, 

 three of them new: 



Crossaster vancouverensis. I Asterias Jcoehleri. 



Asterias saanichensis. 



In May, 1901, an important paper by H. L. Clark appeared in the Proceedings 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History, volume 29, pages 32.3-329 (Asteroidea), 



a Specimens in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, as for example, No. 1191 are so labeled. 

 Perrier's specimen came from this Museum. 

 ftSer. 4, vol. 17, Jan., 1876, p. 187. 



« Nouv. arch, du mus. d'hist. nat. Paris, ser. 2, vol. 1, 1878, pp. 35 and 91. 

 dVid. Medd., 1871, p. 229. 



« Report of Progres.s; Geol. Survey of Canada for 1878-79, 1880. 



/ Echinodermon des Beringsmcercs, Zool. Jahrb., Abth. Syat., vol. 1, 1886, pp. 2S7-295. 

 ffRec. zool. Sui.s.se, vol. 4, No. 3, June 23, 1887. 

 ftProc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 421. 

 < M^moires soc. phys. et d'hist. nat. Geneve, vol. 32, 1897. 



