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Patiria ? i;rassa. 



Pale yellow (dry), five-rayed; rays thick, rather tapering, about 

 lialf as long again as the diameter of the disc. Dorsal surface formed 

 of convex, subhemispherical ossicules, covered with crowded minute 

 spines. The orai surface with roundish groups of short, crowded 

 spines, likę pazilli. 



Inhab. W. Australia. Mr. Gould. 



Pteraster Capensis. 



Body subpentagonal, swoIlen, edge very thick, rounded ; back 

 convex, reticulated, -vvith rounded groups of very small ossicules at 

 the junction of the reticulations. 



Inhab. Cape of Good Hope. 



The spines of the ambukcra are likę those oi Pteraster militaris, 

 but they are longer, and the series of vvebbed spines on their outer 

 margins are scarcely longer than those of the ambulacra, while in 

 the northern species they are much longer and thicker, and there is 

 no appearance of the two long glassy spines at the angle of the 

 mouth, so distinct and peculiar in that species. 



Ganeria. 

 Body flat, five-rayed. Back coriaceous, strengthened with nume- 

 rous small, linear and curved series of very short cylindrical spines. 

 Margin perpendicular, with two series of narrow ossicules, each 

 armed with a centrai, erect, linear series of short cylindrical spines. 

 Orai surface covered with diverging spines, one being placed on each 

 ossicule. Ambulacra linear, with two series of tentacles, and edged 

 with subulate spines, tvvo on each ossicule, and with a series of di- 

 verging spines at the angles near the mouth. 



Ganeria Falklandica. 

 Body five-rayed ; rays as long as the diameter of the disc, rather 

 blunt at the tip. 



Inhab. Falkland Islands. Captain Sir James Ross. 



3. Dkscription of a new species of Fūlgora. 

 By Arthur Adams, Esq., R.N. 



Fūlgora (Hotinus) Sūltana, Adams and White. Fulg. thorace 



superiore et rostro sanguineis ; elytris ad basin nigro-fuscis Uneis 



ochreis venosis, ad apicem ochreo-fnscis ; alis ad basini iniense 



carmineis, ad angulum analem roseis, ad apicem fuscum ųuatuor 



vel qui?ique maculis rotundatis albis ornatis. 



Rostrum and upper surface of thorax of a rich blood-red colour. 



The form of the beak intermediate between that of H. clavatus of 



Westwood and H. pyrorhynchus of Donovan. Elytra blackish brown 



at the base, traversed by ochraceous veins, ^ith the tip ochraceous 



brown. The wings with the base of a deep carmine fading to pale 



pink towards the anai angle, the tips brown, with four or five roundish 



white spots. Body above straw-coloured. 



No. CLXXV. — Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 



