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Sttfuuttriat maeropora Verrill [AeUriat maeropora r 1914, page I i" ^itka; 



Queen Charlotte [slanda. Stated, 1909, to be Stayed, and 1914, 8-rayed; K i"> mm. 

 No specimens in Yale Museum, 1927. Probably does not belong in this Be* I 



it i- extremely unfortunate thai Verrill resuscitated Brandt's epiehlora 



for any 6-rayed Bea star. Brand! distinctly Bays that his tyed, and to 



assume ilitit he had a 6-rayed variant <>f a normally 6-rayed spei ■ Btretch 



probabihty t<> ( > far. After examining literally hundreds "f specimens of /. al 

 I. eamtschatiea, I., hexactis, and /.. aequalit and their various formae, I have found 

 exactly one 6-rayed I. hexaetis forma aspera (Kodiak). 



Ii i- probable that Brandt liail a young Evastei helii forma alveolate, 



Verrill himself described small examples of this form as variel dvlosa under 



Leptasterias epiehlora. Man; years ago Doctor Stimpson restricted epiehlora to 

 what I have called / trotcheliit alveolaia. 1 think he was right. He knew 



that young aboeolata is Bometimea green. 



All of the examples of Verrill's "epichiora" which I was able to find at flu- 

 Yale Museum in 1921 and L925 (Sitka, Wrangell, ('ape Fo eferable to /. 

 aetis forma regularis and aspera. One specimen "t /. >.'/.;-/■#;» is labeled Sitka. 

 is certainly not from there, hut probably from weal ol Kodiak Island. Tie 

 pedicellariae are unmistakable. 



In view of all this uncertainty it is best to discard the name epiehlora. If it 

 were referable to a 6-rayed Leptasterias, tin probabilities would he in favor of /. 



forma regular-is. 



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Bays -i\. "f medium width and length, tapered rather evenly. 

 R i.j mm., r 14 mm., r ii r: breadth of ray at base, about )•"> mm A small -j ■ 

 differing from /.. alasJeensis Verrill in the pn t a nearly complete 



actimd plates and spines, together with a -hort second series at base of ray: in the 

 more regular arrangement of the spine- and papulae of the lateral parts ,,f the abac- 



iinal area; in the si/.e and form of the straight pedicellariae. which are small, com- 

 pressed, and lanceolate or ovate, not large with hroad obtUSC denticulate J.". 



/'- eripi o Ahactinal spines short, fairly rohust and of nearly uniform length 

 o i", 1.. ii;,:, nun i, with denticulate capitate tips, the denticle- arranged men 

 less in definite rows, or without serial arrangement Spines typically in rather poorly 

 defined longiseries, except for those bordering a conspi inal channel 



which usually form :• ular Ion rinal plates each 



• that the midl'adial line pied !>\ 



of Bpinee, -.mew hat larger than the other- Between these ami the regular lateral 



