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and in 1885 off Nova Scotia, at Station 2507, N. lat. 44° 27' 30", W. long. 

 62° 33' 30", in 80 fathoms. " A single specimen was obtained at each 

 locality" (Verrill, 1894). 



Family Antheneidoe. 

 HiPPASTERiA PHRYGiANA (Parelius). 



Asterias phrygiana, Parelius (1770). 



Asterias equestris. Pennant (1776). 



Hippasteria plana, Gray (1841). 



Goniasfcr equestris, Forbes (1841). 



Astrogonium phrygianum, Muller and Troschel (1842). 



Hippasteria phrygiana, Agassiz (1865). 



Grand Manan, " a large specimen was taken off Duck Island, in the 

 coralline zone" (Stimpson). The species has since been dredged at the same 

 locality by Dr. J. W. Fewkes, in 1889. Sir J. W. Dawson, in his Hand- 

 book of Zoology (1870) records its occurrence on the coast of Nova Scotia, 

 and Verrill in 1878 states that it was dredged by the SS. Speedwell of the 

 U. S. Fish Commission, "in 1877, about thirty miles south of Hali- 

 fax, in 100 fathoms."* Still later, in 1895, he says that its bathymetrical 

 range is from 20 to 224 fathoms ; in one instance, off Georges Bank, in 471 

 fathoms, but that it is most common from 50 to 150 fathoms. He adds 

 that it has been "taken at numerous stations in Massachusetts Bay, off 

 Cape Ann, Gulf of Maine, Bay of Fundy, and off Nova Scotia, on hard 

 bottoms." It occurs also on the Eui'opean coasts and in the Arctic Ocean. 

 "No other species of the genus is known. "f 



Family Asterinidoe. 

 Tremaster mirabilis, Verrill. 



1879. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. ii., p. 201. 



"Bathymetrical range. 150 to 250 fathoms, rare. Known only from the 

 banks of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, from N. lat. 47° 6' to near 

 Georges Bank. " All the specimens have been received from the Gloucester 

 fishermen. No other species of this remarkable genus is known " (Verrill, 

 1895). 



* American Journal of Science and Arts, Third Series, vol. xvi., p. 373. 

 t Idem., Third Series, vol. xlix., p. 137. 



