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Tabic of Species of Ophiomastix — continued. 



/'Usually one, rarely two tentacle scales. Disk scaling obscured I ^ ; ■ ,-. 

 One tentacle J by thick skin ; a few blunt spines on upper disk, . . j ^ (•■i- ^ u . 



scale. J 



( Disk densely beset with very short spines, . . . Ophiomastix aaperula. 



No tentacle { Disk scales and upper and side arm plates obscured by thick skin. ) ^ , . 



scale. i A few small spines on upper disk, . . . ] OplnomasUx M«da. 



Ophiomastix caryophyllata, Ltk., Addit. ad Hist., part 3, pp. 43 and 99, 1869 ; 

 Lym., 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi. p. 15, 1871. 

 Fiji Islands ; Zebu Reefs. 



Ophiomastix mixta, Ltk., Addit. ad Hist., part 3, pp. 44 and 99, 1869 ; Lym., 111. 

 Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi. p. 15. 

 Fiji Islands. 



Species of Ophiomastix not herein described. 



Ophiomastix annulosa, Miill. & Tr., Syst. Ast., p. 107, 1842 ; Ltk., Addit. ad Hist., 

 part 3, p. 44 ; Lym., 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi. p. 15. 



Ophiura annulosa, Lnik., Hist. Anim. sans Vert., vol. ii. p. 543, 1816. 

 Java ; Philippines ; Pelews. 



Ophiomastix venosa, Pet., Weig. Archiv, p. 83, 1852 ; Ltk., Addit. ad Hist., part 3, 

 p. 44, 1869 ; Lym., 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi. p. 15. 

 Mozambique. 



Ophiomastix asperida, Ltk., Addit. ad Hist., part 3, pp. 44 and 99, 1869 ; Lym., 

 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi. p. 15. 

 Fiji Island. 



Ophiomastix janualis, Lym., 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi. p. 14, lA. i. figs. 

 13, 14, 1871. 



Ophiomastix Jiaccida, Lym., Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. vi. p. 227, pi. vi. figs. 14, 15, 

 1874. 



Acantharachna jnirdbilis, E. A. Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xiii. p. 335, pi. xviii. figs. 1-6, 1877. 



Philippines ; 7 fathoms. 



