A. E. Verrill — Echinoderms of the Bermudas. 587 



Atnphipholis Ljiiug. (restricted). Type, A. squamata (= A. elegans). 



Two small lateral oral-papilla?, and one broad, operculiforra, distal 

 one, forming a continnous series along each side of the jaws, and 

 capable of nearly or quite closing the mouth-slits. Radial shields in 

 close contact. 



Amphipholis tenera (Ltk.) Ljung. 



Amphiura teneia Liitken, Addit. ad Hist. Ophiur. , pt. ii, p. 124, pi. iii, figs. 



5a, 56, 1857. Lyman, Illust. Catal. Mus. Comp. Zool., i, p. 123. 

 Amphipholis tenera Ljung., Ophiur. Viv., Kong. Akad., 1866, p. 312 ; op. cit., 



1871, pp. 634, 645. Verrill, Bull. Labor. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa, v, p. 29, 



1899 (description). 



Shallow water on shell-sand, Bailey Bay, 1898. Charleston, S. C, 

 to West Indies. Off Cuba, 100-200 fath. 



Amphipholis Goesi Ljung. 



Amx)hiphoUs Goesi Ljungman, Dr. Goes Oph., Kong. Acad., 1871, pp. 635, 648. 

 Verrill, Expl. of Albatross in 1883, Annual Eep. U. S. Fish Com. for 1883, 

 p. 549, 1885. Verrill, Bull. Labor. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa, v, p. 28, 1899 

 (description). 



Amphiura Goesi Lyman, Voy. Challenger, Zool., v, pp. 125, 146, 1882. 



Dredged in shallow water (20-30 feet), Bailey Bay, shell-sand, 

 1898. Off Cape Hatteras, 14 fath., to West Indies. 



HOLOTHURIOIDEA. 



[For a revision of this gi'oup, see Clark, Annals N. York Acad., xii, p. 117, 1899.] 



Synapta viridis Pourt. 



Synapta viridis Pourtales, Proe, Amer. Assoc, for Adv. of Science, 5th meet- 

 ing, p. 14, 1851. 



This small species was not uncommon among filamentous green 

 algfe. It is very active. Most of the specimens were pale green to 

 olive-green with white specks. The larger ones are about 30 to 36™'" 

 in length, and are not mature. It was originally described from 

 Biscayne Bay, Florida. Mr. Clark, op. cit., records three additional 

 Synaptce and Chirodota rotifer a Pourt. 



ECHINOIDEA. 



The more common recorded species of echinoids are Toxopneustes 

 variegatus, abundant on the shell-sand bottoms ; Hipponoe esculenta, 

 reefs and outer islands; Dladema setosum/ Echinomelra subangu- 

 larisy' Mellita sexfovls. 



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