A. E. Yerrill — Echinoderms of the Bermudas. 586 



Ophiura cinerea (Mull, and Tr.) Lyman. 



Ophioderma cinereum Mull, and Troscliel, Syst. Aster., p. 87, 1843. 



Ophioderma Antillarum Jjatk., Vid. Meddel., p. 9, 1856; Add. ad Hist. 

 Ophiiir., pt. ii, p. 88, pi. i, figs, la-le, 1859. 



Ophiura cinerea Lyman, lUust. Catal. Mus. Comp. Zool., i, p. 37, 1865 ; 

 Lyman, Report Voy. Challenger, Zool., Opliiuroidea, v, p. 9, 1883 ; Bulletin 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., x, p. 230. Verrill, Notes on Radiata, Trans. Conn. Acad., 

 i, p. 343, 368, 1868. Nutting, Narrative Bahama Exp., p. 131. 



Interstices and crevices of the reefs. Taken by the Yale party, 

 1898, and by G. Brown Goode. 

 Florida reefs to Babia, Brazil. 



OPHIOLEPIDIDiE Ljung. 



Ophiolepis paucispina Miill. and Tr. 



Ophiura paucispina Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., v, p. 149, 1835. 



Ophiolepis paucispina Miill. and Trosch., Syst. Aster., p. 90, 1843. Liitken, 



Addit. Hist. Ophiur., ii, p. 103, pi. ii, figs. 3o, 2h, 1859. Lyman, Illust. 



Catal. Mus. Comp. Zool., i, p. 55, 1865. 



Two specimens were dredged in Bailey Bay, 20 to 30 feet, shell- 

 sand, 1898. Florida to Rio de Janeiro. 



OPHIOTHRICHID^ Ljung. 



Opliiothrix augulata (Say) Ayres. 



Ophiura angulata Say, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., v, p. 145, 1835. 

 Ophiothrix violacea Miill. and Trosch., Syst. Aster., p. 115, 1842. Lyman, 



ni. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., i, p. 164. Liitken, Add. ad Hist. Oph., pt. ii, p. 



150, pi. iv, figs. 1-ld, 1859. Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., i, p. 343, 366, 



1868. 

 Ophiura hispida Ayers, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., iv, p. 349, 1858. 

 Ophiothrix angulata Ayers, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. Hist., iv, p. 349, 1853. 



Lyman, Illust. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., i, p. 162, pi. i, figs. 1-3, 1865; Report 



Voy. Challenger, Zool., Ophiuroidea, v, pp. 216, 319, 1883; Bull. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., X, p. 267, 1883. Verrill, Bull. Labor. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa, 



V,. p. 19, 1899 (descr.). 



Not common. It often lives gregariously among sponges. Cape 

 Hatteras to Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Off Cuba, 200 fath. 



Ophiothrix Suensonii Liitken. 



Ophiothrix Suensonii Liitken, Vid. Meddel., p. 15, 1856; Add. ad Hist. Oph., 

 pt. ii, p. 148, pi. iv, fig. 3. Lyman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., v, 9, p. 333 ; 

 op. cit., X, p. 367. Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad., i, p. 343, 1868. Lyman, 

 Report Voy. Challenger, Zool., Ophiuroidea, v, p. 823, 1883. Nutting, 

 Narrative Bahama Exp., p. 331 (colors). Verrill, Bull. Labor. Nat. Hist., 

 Univ. Iowa, v, p. 31, 1899 (descr. colors, etc.). 



Collected at Bermuda by Mr. G. Bi-own Goode. 



