ASTEROIDEA OF NORTH PACIFIC AND ADJACENT WATERS FISHEB. 



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brown above, shading to lighter grayish buff on sides and dull yellowish brown on 

 aitinal surface. Mr. Weymouth states that the life colors are similar, but brighter. 



Cotype. — In the Yale University >[useum. 



Type-locality. — Virago Sound, British Columbia, 8 to 1.5 fathoms. 



Distribution. — Monterey Bay, California, to the Aleutian Islands, thence to 

 Kuril Islands; through Bering Strait to Point Franklin. 



Specimem examined. — ^Twentj'-eight, from the following localities: 



Specimens of Solaster dawsoni examined. 



2879. 

 2881. 

 3214. 

 3216. 

 3459. 

 3462. 

 3460. 



4778*., 

 4804 ».. 



Off Cape Flattery, Washington. 



South of Unlmak Island, Alaska. 



Admiralty Inlet, Washington.. 



Straits of Ftica, Washington. 

 Cape Mendocino, California.. 



Sanborn Harbor, Shnniagins, 



Alaska. 

 I'oint Franklin (10 miles west), 



Alaska. 

 Kasaan Bay, Prince of Wales 



Island, southeast .\laska. 

 Near Semlsopochnol Island, 



Aleutians. 



.do. 



Slmushlr, Kuril Islands . 

 Monterey Bay, California 

 Kenlicw District, 



Island, British Columbia. 

 Friday Harbor, San Juan Islands, 



Washington. 



Depth. 



Nature of bottom. 



rocks 



gray sand 



gray sand, gravel, 

 black sand, mud. 



gray sand 



dark sand, rocky, 

 gray sand, shells.. 



Lowest 

 water. 

 13J 



Offshore <■ 

 Low tide 



green mud, fine sand. 



fine black gravel 



coarse pebbles, black sand.. 



U. S. Nat. Miu. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



U. S. Nat. Hus., D. S. Jordaa 



U. S. Nat. Hus., Lieut. Com- 

 mander H. E. Nichols. 



U.S. Nat. Uus.,W. O. Hall 

 (W. H. Dall). 



U. S. Nat. Mus., Point Bar- 

 row Expedition. 



AlbatTott, 19in. 



AlbatTott, 1900. 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Stanford University. 

 Stanford University, J. C. 



Brown. 

 Stanford University, F. W 

 Weymouth. 



a Eight-rayed, large actlnal Interradlal areas. 



»Varlety,some with eight rays, resembling somewhat S. parfUaftu; possibly hybrids. 



e Brought up on fishermen's lines; less than 70 fathoms. 



Remarks. — This species may be distinguished from both endeca and stimpsoni 

 by the long furrow spines, which are nearly as long as the actinal spines, by the 

 straight or nearly straight comb of the latter, and by the larger, usually flat-topped 

 pseudopaxillse. 



SOLASTER PAXaLATUS SUden. 



PI. 87, fig8. 1, 2; pi. 88; pi. 89, figx. 1, 2; pi. 113, fiR. 3. 



Solaster paxillatus Sladen, Challenger A.steroidea, 1889, p. 4.52, pi. 71, figx. 1-3; pi. 72, fiRO. 1, 2. 



Diagnosis. — Rays eight to ten. R = 177 mm.; r = oS mm.; R = 3 + r; varying 

 to 3.7 r. Disk moderate to large; rays, stout; no marked interradial streak free 

 from pa.xillie as in bnrealis, but a slight indication in some s|)eciinens; paxillte 

 fairlv close-set, subtabiilate with numerous small spinelets heavily invested with 



