174 rROCEEDIXGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Feb., 



An Arctic aud Sub- Arctic species. Range, from 3 to 192 

 fathoms. 



8. Cribrella oculata (Linck). 



Peatadactiilofjuster oculatus Linck, De Stellis Marinis, p. 35, PI. 



XXXVi, No. 6-2. 1773. 

 Cribrella oculata Forbes, Hist. Brif. Starfishe=!, p. 100. 1841. 

 Cribrella sanfjuinolenta Liitken. Vid. Meddel. X. Forening i Kjobea- 



havn, p. 31, 1857. 



Station 27. Off Cape Clialon, 35 fathoms. 1 specimen. 



Station 39. Granville Bay, 30-40 fathoms. 1 specimen (dry). 



Station 45. Bardeu Bay, 10-40 fathoms. 2 specimens. 



Station 49. Olriks Bay, upper narrows, 15-20 fathoms. 

 2 specimens. 



The specimens are small (from 17 to 45 mm. in diameter), except 

 the two from Station 45. These are 120 mm. in diameter, and 

 in addition to their size vary from the other specimens in the 

 greater length of the spines, the marked openness of the mesh of 

 the aboral surface, and the irregular arrangement of the spines on 

 the oral surface of the rays. In all these points, however, the 

 specimens closely I'esemble examples from Eastport, Me., which 1 

 have examined in the Peabody Museum at New Haven. 



Distribution. — A Avidely distributed Arctic and Sub- Arctic 

 species. (?)Circumpolar. 



From Nantucket shoals north, Labrador, Hall Island, Green- 

 land (Valorous Ex.), Iceland, British coasts, Scandinavia, Spitz- 

 bergen. Nova Zembla, White Sea, off north coast of Asia 

 (Brandt), Java (von Martens). 



9. Crossaster papposus (Linck). 



Triskaidecuctis papposa Linck, De Stellis Marinis, p. 43, 1773. 

 Crossaster papposus Miiller and Troschel, System der Asteriden, p. 26, 



1842. 

 Crossaster j^apposus Sladen, Challenger Reports, Asteroidea, p. 444, 



1889. 

 Solaster papposa Forhei^, British Starfishes, p. 112, 1841. 

 Solaster papposa Uanielssen aud Koren, Den Norske Xordhavs-Expedi- 



tion, Asteroidea, p. 48, 1884. 



Station 39. Granville Bay, 30-40 fathoms. 3 specimens. 



Station 49. Olriks Bay, upper narrows, 15-20 fathoms. 2 spec- 

 imens. 



Of the specimens collected all are 10-rayed, thus differing from 

 the typical form which has 11-13 rays. 



The two specimens from Station 49 have an extreme diameter of 



