238 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



Diameter of disk 4 mm. Length of arm 12 mm. Width of ai-m without spines 

 1 mm. Mouth angles prominent and separated by wide mouth slits ; at aj^ex is a thick, 

 rounded jaw plate bearing three sharp, spiniform tooth papillfe, above which are teeth of 

 similar shape ; on either side are two spiniform mouth papillas, whereof the outer one is 

 longer and serves as a tentacle scale to the second mouth tentacle. The condition of the 

 single specimen did not allow the forms of the mouth shields and side mouth shields to 

 be made out, as they were pretty closely soldered and more or less covered with skin ; 

 they seemed, however, similar to those of Ophiohelus umbella. Under arm plates 

 of a long axe-shape, much broader without than within, with a widely curved, outer 

 edge, deep re-entering curves on lateral sides, and a small angle within. Side arm plates 

 nearly meeting below, widely separated above, having a feeble spine ridge on their outer 

 margin ; before partly drying the specimen it is hard to make out their outline. No 

 upper arm plates, so that the curious double arm bones show through the translucent 

 skin (fig. 6). Disk, soft and delicate, slightly puffed, covered uniformly with scales so 

 very thin that they can only be seen under the microscope by a cross light. No radial 

 shields. Three nearly equal, sharp, somewhat flattened, arm spines, about as long as an 

 arm joint and a half. When cleaned with potash they appear as two parallel spiculse 

 united by cross-bars (fig. 8). At the ninth joint there still are three spines standing 

 near the outer margin of the side arm plate, Ijut at a large angle to the arm, and just 

 inside their base is a single minute parasol spine, or pedicellaria, about 0'6 mm. long 

 (fig. 9); and stouter and with a larger head than in Ophiohelus umhella. On the joints 

 beyond there are no longer any common spines, but, instead, two close rows of parasol 

 spines, three or four in each row (fig. 7). Tentacles large, long, smooth and not 

 provided with scales. 



Colour in alcohol, translucent bluish-white. 



Station 175.— August 12, 1874 ; near Fiji Islands ; lat. 19° 2' S., long. 177° 10' E. ; 

 1350 fathoms ; red clay. 



Species of Ophiohelus not herein described. 



Ophiohelus umbella, Ljm. (PI. XXVIII. figs. 10-11). 



Ophiohdus umbella, Lym., Anniv. Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., pi. i. figs. 5-10 and IG, 1880. 

 Off Barbadoes ; 82 fathoms. 



Ojyhiotholia. 



OphiothoU'A, Lym., Anniv. Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1880. 



Disk and arms capable of being raised vertically : the former covered by a delicate 

 scaling set w^th minute spines. Mouth angles clothed with several rows of wide, flat 



