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ASTEROIDEA. 
ASTERIAS OCHRACEA, Brandt. Low water, Malaspina Inlet, one small specimen. 
ASTERIAS CONFERTA, Stimpson. Low water, Malapina Inlet, five fine specimens. Discovery 
Passage, at low water, one specimen. 
ASTERIAS TROSCHELI, Stimpson. Several specimens of an Asterias with five long slender 
rays and a very small disk, which are probably referable to this species, were 
collected by Dr. Dawson at low water at the northern end of the Strait of Georgia, 
at the entrance to Malaspina Inlet, at Redonda Island (to the north-east of Cortez 
Island) and in Discovery Passage. The smaller specimens from these localities 
agree very well with Stimpson’s description of A. Troscheli; but the larger ones, 
which attain to a maximum diameter of rather more than a foot, and which are not 
very well preserved, do not shew very clearly the peculiar pentagon formed by 
clusters of spines in the centre of the upper surface of the disk, nor the marked 
disparity in size between the larger and smaller dorsal spines, that are said to be 
characteristic of the species. These larger specimens are precisely similar to a star- 
fish collected by Mr. James Richardson in 1874, at low water, near Victoria, 
Vancouver Island, which was doubtfully and perhaps incorrectly referred to the 
A. epichlora of Brandt in the “Canadian Naturalist ” of December, 1878, but both 
they and it are quite different to the specimens from the Queen Charlotte Islands 
which were called A. epichlora, but with a query, by the writer, on Prof. Verrill’s 
authority, in an appendix to Dr. Dawson’s report on those islands.’ Since that 
appendix was written, however, two very typical and well preserved examples of 
A. Troscheli have been detected among Dr. Dawson’s collections from the Queen 
Charlotte Islands. 
ASTERIAS HEXACTIS, Stimpson. Taken rather sparingly, living, at low tide in Seymour 
Narrows, Discovery Passage, Johnstone Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound. A few 
badly preserved and small specimens of a six-rayed star-fish, which is also 
probably A. hexactis, were dredged at station No. 14. 
PYCNOPODIA HELIANTHOIDEA, Brandt. (Sp.) Hernando Island, Strait of Georgia, at low 
water, one specimen. 
SOLASTER Stimpsoni, Verrill. Low water at Port Neville, on the mainland of British 
Columbia and on the north side of Johnstone Strait,—several. Twelve specimens of 
a Solaster, which seems to be only a variety of this species, were dredged in Queen 
Charlotte Sound at station No. 14. These differ from the type of S. Stimpsoni prin- 
cipally in the unusually large size of the disc and in the shortness of the rays, 
which latter are uniformly ten in number. The spines at the angles near the 
mouth, also, are apparently more numerous. 
NOLASTER Dawsonl, Verrill. Beach at Powell Island, Strait of Georgia ; one adult example. 
Entrance to Malaspina Inlet, at low water; one small specimen. Low water at 
Johnstone Strait and in the Goletas Channel; abundant. 

1 Report of Progress of the Geological Survey of Canada for 1878-79, p. 192 B. 
