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Species of Ophiopholis not herein described. 

 Ophiopholis aculeata, Gray (PI. XLVI. fig. 6). 



Ophioplwlis aculeata, Gray, Rad. Animals Brit. Mus., p. 25, 1848 ; Ltk., Addit. ad Hist, part 1, 



p. 60, pi. ii. figs. 15, 16. 

 Bellis scolopendrica, Linck, De Stel. Mar., p. 52, pi. xl. fig. 71, 1733. 

 Aderias aculeata, Linn., Syst. Nat. (Gmel.), p. 3166, 1788. 

 Asterias ophiura, Fabr., Fauna Green., p. 371, 1780. 

 Asterias aculeata, Eetz., Asterire Gen., p. 240, 1783. 



Asterias aculeata, Abildgaard, in Miiller, Zool. Dan., p. 29, pL xcix., 1789. 

 Oplmira flemingii et Ophiura arnmotJiea, Leach, Zool. Misc., toI. ii. pp. 55, 56, pi. bcxLx. 



figs. 1-3. 

 Ophiura bellis, Flem., Edin. Phil. Journ., vol. viii. p. 298; Brit. Anim., p. 488 ; Johnston, 



Mag. Nat. Hist., p. 595. 

 Ophiocoma hellis, Fbs., Wern. Mem., vol. viii. p. 126 ; Brit. Starfishes, p. 53. 

 Op)Molepis {Ophiopholis) scolopendrica, MiilL & Tr., Wieg. Archiv., p. 328; Syst. Ast., p. 96. 

 Ophiopholis bellis, Lym., lU. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. i. p. 96, pi. i. figs. 4-6. 

 Polypholis eehinata {1), Dnncan, Jonrn. Linn. Soc, vol. xv. p. 73, pi. iil (Young). 



North-east America ; North European and Arctic seas ; littoral to 400 fathoms. 



Opliiopliolis hennerlyi, Lym., Proc. Post. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. vii. p. 200, 1860 ; 111. 

 Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. i. p. 100. 



Puget Sound to Mendocino, California. 



Ophiop)hoUs caryi, Lym., Proc. Post. Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. vii. p. 261, 1860 ; 111. Cat. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., No. i. p. 101. 



Queen Charlotte Island (?), Coast of California ; littoral to 22 fathoms, 



Ophiopholis mirabilis, Lym., Bidl. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. vi. part 2, p. 43. 



Ophiolepis mirabilis, Duncan, Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xiv. p. 460, pis. ix. and x. figs. 12-14. 



Korean Sea. 



Ophiactis. 

 Ophiadis, Ltk., Vid. Meddel, 1856. 



Disk circular, robust, closely covered with radial shields and overlapping scales, the 

 latter bearing usually a greater or less number of small spines. Teeth. No tooth papillse. 

 Mouth angles small and narrow, and bearing a few (usually two or four) small mouth 

 papillse. Arms stout, somewhat flattened, of moderate length (four to seven times 

 diameter of disk). Arm spines stout, smooth, and solid. Two genital openings beginning 

 outside the mouth shields. 



