345 [VerriU. 



Ctenodiscus crispatus Dub. and Koren. 



Fivnchman's Bay, near Mt. Desert, Me., twelve fathoms, muddy 

 bottom. 



Cribrella sanguinolenta LUtken. 



Asterias sanguinolenta Miiller, 17 76. Asterias oculata Pennant, 

 Brit. ZooL, 1777. Asterias spongiosa Fabr. Fauna Groen., 1780. 

 Asterim pertusa Fabr., 1823. '•' Linckia oculata Forbes," 1839; 

 Stimpson, op. cit. p. 14. Linclia pertusa Stimp. 1. c. Cribrella ocu- 

 lata Forbes, Hist. Brit. Starfishes, 1841; A. and E. C. Aj^assiz, op. 

 cit. p. 112, fig. 146. EcMnaster oculatus MiilL and Tr., 1842. 



Abundant along the whole coast from Nantucket Shoals, Mass., to 

 Labrador and Greenland, and southward on the European coast to 

 Norway and Great Britain. At Eastport, Me., and Grand Menan, I 

 have dredged it in from five to twenty-five fathoms abundantly, and 

 it is also common at low-water, in all its varieties. 



The name oculata, sometimes applied to this species, was given by 

 Linck in 1733, before the establishment of the binomial system. 



Solaster endeca Forbes, (Linn, sp.) 



Common on the coast of Maine, and in the Bay of Fundy, from 

 low-water mark to twenty fathoms. It is less common in Massaclm- 

 setts Bay. It has about the same range as the last species, northward, 

 and on the European coast. 



In the Bay of Fundy, this species is usually deep purple above, 

 and orange below, but one large specimen occurred entirely orange. 

 The rays vary from nine to thirteen. 



Crossaster papposus Miill. and Tr., (Fabr. sp.) 

 Solaster papposus Forbes ; Stimpson ; Liitken, etc. 

 niis species occurs occasionally in Massachusetts Bay, and is not 

 uncommon in the Bay of Fundy in twenty to forty-five fathoms, 

 rocky bottoms, and occasionally at low-Avater, especially during spring 

 tides. I have taken specimens six inches or more in diameter, at low- 

 water. It extends northward to the Arctic Ocean and on the coast 

 of Europe to Great Britain. 



Asterias (Asteracanthion) Forbesii VerriU, (Desor sp.) 



Asteracanthion Fo7-besii Besor, these Proc. iii, p. 67, 1848. A. 

 berylinus Ag. MS. ; A. Agassiz, Embryology Echin. Proc. Am. Acad. 

 1863 ; Seaside Studies, p. 108, figs. 141 to 145, 1865. 



A comparison of the original specimen of Desor's A. Forbesii. be- 

 longing to this Society, with specimens of ^. berylinus, labelled by Mr. 



