anterior rays only about half the size of the others, with 4 and 5 arms ; there are three IIIBr 
series, all internal ; the arms are robust ; the other with 2 1 arms has the arms distributed on 
the various rays as follows: 2, 5 (4+ i); 5 (i +4). 4 (i + 3)i 5 (4 + i); one of the IIBr 
series is 3 (2 4- 3), the other three being 4 (3 + 4) ; all the IIIBr series are 3 (2 4- 3) ; only 
a single cirrus is present, the centrodorsal approaching the condition of a sunken stellate plate ; 
one with 22 arms 130 mm. long has one IBr series bearing two undivided arms, and three 
others with one divided and one undivided derivative ; there are four internally developed 
IIIBr series, and two IIIBr series on a single IIBr series; the only external IIIBr series is 2 
instead of, as the others, 3 (24-3); the other with 22 arms has the two posterior rays and 
their dei^ivatives less than half the size of the others; there are three IIIBr series, all internal, 
and all 3 (24-3); the specimen with 23 arms has the right anterior arm very small, and 
the anterior arm of about the same size ; the left anterior arm is slightly larger, and the 
other two arms are normal; all the small rays have four arms each, the right anterior and 
the anterior with two IIBr 2 series, and the left anterior with two IIBr 4 (3 -|- 4) series; the 
IIIBr series are internal; the example with iS arms has four of the IIBr series 2, and four 
4 (3 + 4) ; '^hat with 1 7 arms has one ray with only IBr series, and on another ray an undi- 
vided arm springing from a IBr axillary ; one of the specimens with 1 3 arms has on one ray 
two IIBr 2 series one of which bears externally a IIIBr 3 (2 + 3) series; the other has one 
IIIBr series; one of those with 14 arms has three IIIBr series, two on a single IIBr series, 
the other externally developed; one of the 12 armed individuals has one of the IIBr series 2, 
the other 4 (3 4-4); one of the 10 armed examples is of mature size. 
The specimen from Stat. 322 is large, with 16 arms 125 mm. long; the cirri are 
rather small and slender, XVI, 21, 15 mm. to 17 mm. long. 
Extraordinary variability appears to be characteristic of this form ; the arms var\- from 
10 to 30 in number; the cirri are usually very slender with the distal segments longer than 
broad and bearing single dorsal spines, but they may be stouter with the distal segments not 
longer than broad, in which case they bear two dorsal spines, a distal and a proximal. 
5. Capillaster nutltiradiata (Linne). 
Petiver. Gazophylacium, 17 16, pi. 4, fig. 6 [Stella Chinensis perlegeiis). 
LiNCK. De Stellis Marinis, 1733, p. 53 {Tpi(rxxilsxxy,-^£[j.cs). 
SCHULZE. Betrachtung der versteinerten Seesterne, 1760, p. 17 {Triscaedecacittvnos). 
LiNNE. Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, vol. 2, p. 663 [Asterias pectinata, reference to Petiver; 
Asterias niiiltiradiata, type specimen at Lund, upon which the description is based, but 
none of the references cited). 
A. J. Retzius. K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl., vol. 4, Ar 1783, p. 241 [Asterias multiradiata). 
Lath.^M and Davis. Faunula Indica, 1795, p. 32 [Asterias multiradiata). 
A. J. Retzius. Dissertatio sistens species cognitas asteriarum, 1805, p. 35 [Asterias multi- 
radiata). 
Lam.\RCK. Hist. nat. des animau.x sans vertebres, vol. 2, 1S16, p. 534 [Comatula fimbriata], 
J. .Muller. Abhandi. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., 1841 (1843), ]^. 21Z [Asterias multiradiata); 
pp. 184, 224 [Comatula fimbriata). 
J. Muller. Abhandi. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., 1847 (1849), p. 258 [Comatula [Alecto] 
fimbriata); p. 261 [Comatula [Alecto] multiradiata). 
