VHMBDWMA Ot \<>htii pacific am> MMACBOT u\in- n~iiK.it Ml 



AJoohoIk examples usually show a pulpy skin, prominent sheaths around tho 

 epinelete, and large papulae. Thie is particularly true of southern Uaskan and 

 AJerl Buy examples, but is iiol of geographic significance since the Nagai and Lfognak 

 specimena are aimilar. 



Crossed pedicellariae not very numerous, 0.19 to 0.28 mm long I'l u. 

 g- !„ | i„ north, in examples the lateral teeth ol the terminal lip are characteristi- 

 cally alender. Straight pedicellariae ovate, slender ovate, tapered, the tip »f jaw 

 either narrowed or slightly spatulate; largest in interradial channel, sometimes 



invii fairly conspicuous I'l. it. Gga. ll 



Specimens collected at St. Paul, Kodiak, April 12, 1926, by Mr - P Smith, 

 were carrying large masses of eggs on the oral side of disk. 



I tor in life.- Specimens from Codiak (St. Paul) only a month in formalin, 

 were colored dull maroon, sometimes very deep, mottled with cinnamon or pinkish 



cinnamon. 



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Type of forma tupera Cat. No. E 1498, I' .8 N M 'from Hopkins Marine 



Station). 



Type locality of forma tupera. St. Paul (Kodiak), Kodiak Island. 



-Nagai, Shumagin Islands to Alert Hay. Qneen Charlotte Sound, 

 Bnti-h Columbia. 



Form« KE(il 1.ARIS Vrrrill 



Plate 44, Figure 6; Piute 61, FlgUM 1; Plate 62, Piguni 3-5 



Ltplatleria* rpichlnra miliaria var. regulari* VaBBXLL. 

 Ltptattrriaa epirkl'ira miliaria var. subrrgularis Vkhkii.l. 

 Leptasterias rpichlnra jmgttana Vkrhili.. 



Diagnosis. Differing is appearance from /.. oloakenait in having a long aeries 

 of monacanthid actual plates; a well marked carina] Beries of -mall groups of apine- 

 lete; superomarginals well up on aide of ray; small to medium sized ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate Btraighl pedicellariae; mostly m on acan t hid adambulacral plates 

 Superomargmal Bpinee one or two (sporadically three ; infero m a rginals two; a well 

 developed inter and supra marginal channel. Says six, rather short ami rol 

 skeleton Btout, irregular dorsolaterally; dorsolateral Bpinelete rather numerous, and 

 coarse, scattered or forming a poorij denned reticulum 



Tin- 1- one of the few form- of Leptasterias described bj Verrill of which authentic 

 specimens can be found. I have carefully examined one from Cape Fox, the only 

 listed locally. Thia i- on the mainland opposite the northern end of the Queen 

 ( 'harlottc Islands 



The (ape l'ox example has rather fewer al.aetmal -pine- than the major' 



the specimens from the Puget Sound region and certain similar ones from Sitka, 

 Loring, and Homer, Alaska, to which VerriD'a name pvgetana would be applicable. 

 Thia subspecies was based upon an example from Pugel Sound having the onusually 

 large ovoid pedicellariae which are found also on Borne specimens of undoubted 

 I ordova, Alaska; Victoria, British Columbia). P imply repre- 



-eiit- a more multi-pinou- phase of nynlaris and OCCUT8 among -penmen- from 

 Cooks Inlet. Alaska, to \enh Ba\ . Washington. 



\. Trill's specimen of cjular,, is therefore a rather pan. i.-pinou- examp 



f ()rma r , [tianeot -ary to eorreel a Berious error m VerrOl's abort diagnosia 



