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uppermost the longest ; the under arm-plates irregularly pentagonal, 
with one or, near the base, two ambulacral papille. 
Colour, in spirit, whitish. 
R= 4s 
Distribution. Norway, Spitzbergen, Greenland ; the specimen in 
our collection bears no locality. Reported by Hoyle from Faeroe 
Channel. 400 fms. 
6. OPHIOPHOLIS. 
Ophiopholis, Liitken, Danske Selsk. Skrift.v. (1859) p.59 (ex M. Tr. Syst. 
Ast, (1842) p. 96); Lyman, Til. Cat. M. C. Z. (1865) p. 96; Norm. 
Ann. § Mag. xv. (1865) p. 111; Lyman, Chall. Rep. Oph. (1882) 
p- 110. 
No tooth-papille ; teeth ; mouth-papille not numerous. Radial 
shields naked, not large. Disk-scales more or less ornamented with 
prominent granules, which may become spines. Arm-spines smooth, 
stout, of moderate length. Upper arm-plates surrounded by smaller 
supernumerary plates. Bursal slits deep. 
1. Ophiopholis aculeata. 
Asterias aculeata, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. (1766) p. 1101; 0. F. 
Mill. Prod. Z. D, (1776) p. 235; Retz. Vet.-Ak, Hdlg. iv. (1783) 
p. 240; LZ. Gmel. S. N. xiii. (1789); Abily. Zool. Dan. iii. (1789) 
p: 29, pl. xcix.; Retz. Diss. Spec. Ast. (1805) p. 32. 
Asterias ophiura, Fabr. Faun. Grenl. (1780) p. 371. 
Ophiura aculeata, Nelss. Coll. Zool. Scan. (1817) p- 14. 
Ophiura ammothea, Leach, Zool. Mise, (1817) p. 55, 
Ophiura flemingii, zd. ¢. ¢. p. 56. 
Ophiura bellis, Fleming, Brit. An. (1828) p. 488 ; Johnst. Mag. Nat. 
Hist. viii. (1835) p. 595. 
Ophiocoma bellis, Forbes, Mem. Wern. Soc. viii. (1839) p. 126; 
td. Brit. Slarf. (1840) p. 58 ; Thompson, Nat. Hist. Irel. iv.(1856) 
p-438; Peach, Proc. Phys.Soc. Edinb. ii. (1859-62) p. 382, pl. xx. ; 
Maitl. Faun. Belg. sept. (1851) p. 86. 
Ophiolepis aculeata, M. Tr. Arch. f. Nat. 1840, p. 328. 
Ophiolepis (Ophiopholis) scolopendrica, id. Syst. Ast. (1842) 
p- 96 (zon O. scolopendrina, apud Duj. § Hup, Echin. p. 241); 
Gray, Brit. Rad, (1848) p. 25. 
Ophiopholis aculeata, Lvtk. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrift. v. (1859) 
p: 60, pl. ii. figs. 15 & 16; Norm. Ann. §& Mag. xv. (1865) p. 112; 
Jarzynsky, Trans. Petersb. Soc. Nat, i. (1870) p. 318; Marenz. 
Denk, Ak. Wien, xxxy. (1878) p. 883; Lyman, Chall. Rep. Oph. 
(1882) p.112; Hoyle, Proc. R. Soc, Ed. xii. (1884) p.720; Ludw. 
Zool. Jahrb. i. (1886) p. 285; Fyelstrup, Zool. Dan. Pigh. (1890) 
p- 28, pl. ili. fig. 3. 
Ophiopholis bellis, Lyman, Ill. Cat. M. C. Z. i. (1865) p. 66, pl. i. 
figs. 4-6; Herdman, Proc. R. Phys. Soc. Ed. v. (1880) p. 201; 
Leslie §& Herdm. op. cit. vi. p. 87. 
A rather small but stout species. The disk is rather elegantly 
ornamented with clumps of granules, which become closely packed 
