ISTBBOIDaU 01 NORTH PACINI \M> IDJACBNT \\\ll.!.- FISHED 221 



i uxoancBASTu h ia n Ksifeka 



K l: v mm \ I 



The type was taken about 30 miles east <>f Cape Brazil, in 62 fathoms 



1 have ii specimen from the Museum <>f Comparative labeled "Patagonia, 



.thorns" which, Like the type, has ~i\ rays, and mi i R 19 mm., r 8.5 nun. 

 It has one larger and two -mailer madreporic 1 »« *■ 1 • 



Another species which probably belongs !" Alfosticha U 

 \' ill (1915, i' 26, pi 9, ti'_' 3 . whioh was taken by the AH> itation 27 



..ir the east ooaat of South America 17' S W The de- 



scription is incomplete but theactinalaapecl of the ray, as figured, AUosticl 



rather than Stephatu It i- possible that the specimen <>f hartii referred t>> 



above, really belongs in I • 



5. UXOSTICHASTEB ltn.1 I Mils 4 lark. 



Etec.fi t, No. 4 115. 



S tli Australia: Spencer and St. Vincent Gulfs. 



Geaas iN vsii m v> Perrler 



u Piaan 1 875, p. 81; 1891, p. 01 



Pnmaa.S M 



I v,.i. 10, i ■ p 107 



■m Pi unit ii. I vol 108, :. ' 1 1 l s- - '.: Cap 



1801, p 

 N oi Ludwli 



K embUng Spo the abactinal skeleton typically 



reduced u> as open, delicate irregular mesh, entirely hidden l>\ thick pulpy skin. 

 which in the adult, even when dried, maj conceal the underlying plates Both series 

 of ni«r»riu«! plates well developed; the superomarginals commonly monacanthid 

 spite the inferomarginals diplacantl es of actinals, sporadically 



spiniferous; adoral carina composed <>t about three pairs <»f contiguous postoral 

 adambulaeral plates; interbrachial septum alcified; gonads opening 



\ enti alU paedophoric 



/.'• The above diagnosis is intended t>i rl .• tun known sp< 



«>f a larger group which includes S ind possibl) Kalyptasb .1 which 



by right nf priority would be called .4i This diagnosis of i- 



therefore of the Bubgenu The diagnoses ••(' S w and Kaly 



f subgenera I have listed thi - separate!} in order to >1 



attention to the peculiar characters of i ning which there has 



some misapprehension 



The generic turn • ilv applied since Ludwig 



first -et the fashion in 1903 by using it for i _-i"up ■•!' small, paedophoi 

 almost devoid "f abactinal skeleton but characterized t>\ a soft, pustulated, glandular 

 integument These hear a stn>m; super! 



