[39] ALBATROSS EXPLORATIONS. 541 
Brisinga costata Verrill. 1884. 
B. range, 888 to 1,255 fathoms, 1883. Not common. 
One of the larger examples, from station 2116, but not the largest, 
measured 37 inches in diameter; disk, 2.75 inches; greatest breadth of 
arms, .75; length of longest spines, .62 of an inch. 
Cribrella sanguinolenta (Miiller) Liitken. 
B. range, shore to 194 fathoms (69 to 122 fathoms, 1883). Common 
as far south as Cape Hatteras at moderate depths; abundant 
northward. 
Solaster abyssicola Vervill. 1885. 
Solaster Earilit Verrill, this Report for 1882, p. 659 (not of 1879). 
B. range, 843 to 1,537 fathoms (843 to 1,395 fathoms, 1883). Not un- 
common. 
_ A large species, often a foot in diameter, somewhat resembling 8S. 
Karli, but with very different spinulation on the actinal side. Rays 
usually eight or nine, varying to seven andten. Abactinal side covered 
with rather small, not very close, rounded paxille, bearing small and 
-Short spinules. The branchial papule are large and numerous, thickly 
scattered on the disk and base of arms. Marginal plates prominent, 
bearing a transverse, oblong group of small rough spinules in two or 
three rows. Interbrachial ventral areas of moderate size, covered with 
rounded paxille similar to those of the back, but arranged in regular 
rows, and bearing adivergent group of tive to eight small rough spin- 
ules. The adambulacral plates bear an outer transverse row of five to 
seven, rather short, moderately thick spines, united at base and covered 
by a thick skin; and an inner group of three or four nearly equal and 
rather short spines, united together by a web for about half their length. 
Color, while living, uniform orange or deep red. Greater radius of a 
medium sized example, 113™™; lesser radius, 40™™. 
Solaster endeca Forbes. 
B. range, shore to 150 fathoms, north of Cape Cod (122 fathoms, 1883, 
George’s Bank). Common northward from Cape Cod in moderate 
depths. 
Crossaster papposus M. and Tr. 
B. range, shore to 150 fathoms, north of Cape Cod (49 to 75 fathoms, 
1883, George’s and Brown’s Banks). Northern; common from the 
Bay of Fundy northward, in shallow water. 
Lophaster furcifer (Dub. & Kor.) Verrill = Solaster furcifer auth. Figs. 
49, 49a. 
B. range, 234 to 640 fathoms (150 fathoms, 1833, George’s Bank). 
Rare; chiefly northern; it occurs in moderate depths in the Gulf of 
* Maine and off the Nova Scotia coast. 
Pteraster militaris M. & Tr. Fig. 35. 
B. range, 10 to 150 fathoms, north of Cape Cod (101 to 130 fathoms, 
in 1883, off Nova Scotia). Common on the coast of Maine and north- 
ward, in shallow water. 
