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that on margin a large 2-jawed pedicellaria nearly as long as 

 tooth. Two shorter spines may take the place of the pedi- 

 cellaria. In line with the tooth a series of about 10 superficial 

 spinelets follows edge of suture, decreasing in size toward outer 

 end of plate ; and along curved margin adjacent to first adam- 

 bulacral are 4 or 5 slender spinelets, the second from inner end 

 of series often the longest. This series is separated from the 

 superficial by a shallow groove. 



Color in life, reddish brown (burnt Sienna) on abactinal sur- 

 face; marginal spines lighter, often whitish; actinal surface 

 whitish. 



Type, No. 21929,11. S. Nat. Mus. Type locality, Albatross 

 Station 3148, off Central California in 47 fathoms, on brown 

 mud. 



Family ECHINASTERIDiE Verrill. 



Genus Henricia ' Gray. 



Henricia Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. i, vi, 1840, 184. 



Type, Astcrias sanguinolenta O. F. Miiller. 

 Linckia Forbes, non Nardo, Mem. Wern. Soc. vm, 1839, I2 °- 

 Cribrella Forbes, non Agassiz, Brit. Starfishes, 1841, 106. 

 Cribrella Liitken, Gronl. Echinod., 1857, 30; and most authors 



since then. 

 Echinaster M. & T. Syst. Ast., 1842, 22 (pars). 

 Henricia Bell, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, vi, 1890, 472. 



HENRICIA ASPERA Fisher, new species. 



Rays 5. R= 100 mm.; r= 15 mm; R=6.6r. Breadth 

 of ray at base, 14 mm. 



Disk small, rays slender, usually not swollen at base. Abac- 

 tinal skeleton forming an open meshwork, the individual plates 



1 Cribrella Ag., the name long used for this genus, is a synonym of Liuckia 

 Nardo. Forbes appropriated Agassiz's name and transferred it to a different 

 group, that is, to the genus which Gray had previously named Henricia. Cri- 

 bella Forbes drops out of nomenclature both because it is a synonym of Henricia 

 and more especially as it is a homonym of Cribrella Agassiz. The Cribrella 

 of Agassiz was proposed (Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchatel t. 1, 1S35. 191 1 as a 

 substitute name for Liuckia Xardo, the latter being now in use. Consequently 

 Cribrella Ag. has no status other than as a synonym of Liuckia. 



