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depth from 5 to 632 fathoms, but that it is most abundant from 50 to 150 

 fathoms, also that it ha< boen " taken at numerous stations in Massachusetts 

 Bay, Bay of Fundy, ifec." and that it "extends to Greenland, Spitzbergen, 

 and northern Europe." 



Family A stropectinidce. 

 Leptoptyciiaster arcticus (M. Sars). 



Astropecten arclicus, M. Sars (1851). 

 Archaster arcticus, Verrill (1878). 

 Leptopty chaster arcticus, Sladen (1889). 



Dredged by the SS. Speedwell, of the U. S. Fish Commission, in 1877, 

 about thirty miles south of Halifax, N.8., in 100 fathoms, tine, compact, 

 sandy mud (Verrill, 1878). 



PsiLASTER Flor.e, Verrill. 



Archaster Flora; Verrill (187!^). 

 PsUaster Flora, Verrill (1894). 



Dredged by the SS. Speedwell, in 1877, with the preceding. "It has also 

 been sent by the Gloucester tishermen, from several localities on the various 

 banks off Nova Scotia, in 60 to 230 fathoms" (Verrill, 1878). 



Family Pentagoniasteridoe. 



TOSIA GRANULARIS (Retzius). 



Asterias granularis, Retzius (1783). 



Astrogoniuvi granulare, MuUer and Troschel (1842). 



Pentugonaster granularis, Perrier (1876). 



Tosia granularis, Verrill (18S9). 



Off Halifax, Nova Scotia (Sir J. W. Dawson, 1870). Dredged by the 

 SS. Speedwell, in 1877, with the two preceding species, and taken also by 

 Gloucester fishermen on the banks off Nova Scotia (Verrill). It seems to be 

 a circumpolar species, as a fine specimen was dredged by Dr. G. M. Dawson, 

 in 1885, in 40 fathoms, off the mouth of the Qualicum River, in the Strait 

 of Georgia, B.C. 



Tosia eximia, Verrill. 



Pentagonaster eximius, Verrill (1894). 

 Tosia eximia, Verrill (1899). 



"This species was taken by the SS. Albatross," of the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission, "in 1883, off Le Have Bank, at Station 2064," in 122 fathoms; 

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