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pp. 141, 322, Plate 11, figs. 13-22, Plate 12%, Plate 12¢, figs. 1, 2, (name adopted 
from Klein, 1734, accidentally binomial). 
New Jersey to Brazil; very abundant along the whole eastern coast 
of the United States, south of Cape Hatteras, and along the entire 
coast of the Gulf of Mexico; rare and local north of Cape Hatteras. 
Vineyard Sound, 5 to 8 fathoms, rare and: dead; outer beach at Great 
Egg Harbor, New Jersey, dead. Nantucket (Agassiz). 
ASTERIOIDEA. 
ASTERIAS ARENICOLA Stimpson. Plate XXYV, fig. 269. (p. 326.) 
Proce. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. viii, p. 268, 1862; Verrill, vol. x, p. 339, 1866. 
Asteracanthion berylinus Ag. MSS., A. Agassiz, Embryology of Echinod., in Proc. 
Amer. Acad., 1863; Embryology of the Starfish, in Agassiz Contributions, vol. 
v, p. 33; Sea-Side Studies, p. 108, figs. 141-145, 1865 (t. Agassiz). 
Massachusetts Bay to Northern Flarida and the northern shores of 
the Gulf of Mexico; rare and local, in sheltered localities, north of Mas- 
sachusetts, as at Quahog Bay, east of Portland, Maine; but not known 
from the eastern part of the coast of Maine, nor in the Bay of Fundy. 
Very common in Long Island Sound; Buzzard’s Bay; Vineyard 
Sound; and along the shores of Long Island, from low-water to 15 
fathoms. Not uncommon in Massachusetts Bay, at Nahant, Beverly, 
We. 
ASTERIAS FORBES! Verrill. 
Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 345, 1866. Asteracanthion Forbesii Desor, 
Proc. Boston Soe. N. H., vol. iii, p. 67, 1848. 
Buzzard’s Bay to Beverly, Massachusetts. Vineyard Sound and off 
Gay Head, 6 to 14 fathoms; Buzzard’s Bay, 6 fathoms ; Chelsea and 
Beverly, Massachusetts, low-water. Vineyard Sound, 8 fathoms, (De- 
sor). 
This is probably identical with the preceding species, the differences 
being, perhaps, chiefly sexual, but I have not yet had opportunities to 
satisfy myself fully in regard to this point, and, therefore, leave them, 
for the present, under separate names. Should they be united, the 
name Forbesti has the precedence over all others. 
ASTERIAS VULGARIS Stimpson, MSS. (p. 496.) 
Packard, in Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, Dec., 1863 (no description) ; 
Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. x, p. 347, 1866 (description), Astera- 
canthion pallidus Ag. MSS.; A. Agassiz, Embryology, in Proc. Amer. Acad., ; 
1863 (no description); Embryology of the Starfish, in Agassiz’ Contributions. 
vol. v, p. 3. Asterias rubens Gould, Invert., ed. i, p. 345 (non Linné). 
Long Island Sound to Labrador, and (?) Greenland. Very abundant 
in Massachusetts Bay, Casco Bay, Bay of Fundy, from above low-water 
mark to 40 fathoms; in the deeper parts of Vineyard Sound and off 
Gay Head, in 6 to 25 fathoms, not uncommon; off Watch Hill, Rhode 
Island, 4 to 5 fathoms, common; Faulkner’s Island, Connecticut, low- 
water, very rare. 
