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



Species of Ophiocreas not herein described. 



Ophiocreas lumbriciis, Lym., Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. i., part 10, p. 347, 1869 ; 

 lU. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. vi., pi. i., figs. 19-21 ; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool, vol. v., 

 part 9, p. 236. 



West Indies ; 75 to 480 fathoms. 



Astroceras. 



Astrocera^, Lym., Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, vol. vi., part 2, 1879. 



Disk and arms covered with smooth, soft skin. Disk small ; its interbrachial outlineB 

 re-enteringly curved ; radial shields narrow and rather high, running nearly to centre. 

 Arms somewhat knotted by a contraction between each pair of joints. Upper arm plates 

 divided in halves like high ribs, bearing a jointed spine at their upper ends. Side arm 

 plates, towards middle of arm, having a long process, to which are articulated the two 

 spine-like tentacle scales. Teeth in a single vertical row. No tooth ^^apillas. A clump 

 of grains on sides of mouth angles, answering to mouth papillae. Two vertical genital 

 openings. 



Astroceras stands next Ophiocreas and Astroschema. By its peculiar elongated side 

 arm plates bearing spine-like, rough tentacle scales, and the large spines on the upper 

 surface of the arm, it resembles the branching Euryale asp>era. 



Astroceras pergamena, Lym. (PI. XXXIV. figs. 1-5). 



Adroceras pergamena, Lym., Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. vi., part 2, p. 62, pi. xviii. figs. 

 478-480, 1879. 



The smooth skin is translucent, allowing the underlying parts to be seen. The upper 

 ends of the halves of the upper arm plates project, and bear a stout spine. Tentacle 

 scales thick, rough ended, and nearly equal in size. On the sides of the mouth angle are 

 elongated grains answering to mouth papillae. 



(Tjrpe specimen from Station 235.) Diameter of disk 19 mm. Length of arm about 

 100 mm. Width of arm at base 2 mm. ; height of same 2 "5 mm. High up on the sides 

 of the mouth angles are elongated grains, ii-regularly arranged and answering to mouth 

 papillae, while at the apex is the lowest tooth, flat and shaped like a wide spearhead. 

 Mouth shields very smaU, triangular, with a rounded angle inward and outer edge straight. 

 Side mouth shields very large and swollen, narrower without, meeting broadly within ; 

 both they and the mouth shields are obscured by skin. Under arm plates small, and 

 squarish, and occupying only a part of the length of a joint. Side arm plates nearly or 

 quite meeting below, swollen and rounded, with a small projection to carry the two spine- 

 like tentacle scales ; further out, on the arm, this projection is much elongated, forming 

 an articulating process. Upper arm plates represented by two rib-like ridges, which do 



