3d A. JS. Verrill — Additions to the Fauna of the Bermudas. 



OPHIUROIDEA. 

 Astroporpa afi&nis Lutken. 



Lntken, Addit. ad Hist. Opliivir., II, p. 154, pi. v, figs 5a, 56, 1859. 



Four specimens of tbis rare species were found clinging to the 

 branches of a large gorgonian ( Verrucella grandis V.), brought up 

 from about 100 feet, off the outer reefs, on a fisherman's hook. The 

 color, as dried, after a few days, is light yellowish or grayish-brown 

 on the raised annulations of the arms and ribs, and darker brown on 

 the annular grooves. 



ASTERIOIDEA. 



Luidia dathrata (Say). 



Asterias dathrata Say, Jouvn. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbilad., v, p. 141, 1825. 



Luidia dathrata Lutken, Videusk. Meddel., p. 37, 1859. A. Agassiz, N. 

 Amer. Starfishes, p. 117, pi. xx. Perrier, Arch. Zool. Exper., v, p. 252, 

 1876. Sladen, Voy. Challenger, Zool., vol. xxx, pp. 245, 353, 1889. 



Several fine specimens of this species Avere taken on a white shell- 

 sand bottom in shallow water, at Trunk Island, Harrington Sound. 

 It also occurred at Long Bird Island and other localities, on shell- 

 sand bottoms in shallow water. Its presence is indicated b}'" a star- 

 shaped impression in the sand. But it move* about under the sand 

 with remarkable rapidity, when disturbed, b}'^ means of its large 

 ambulacral tubes, so that it is not easy to capture it, after it has 

 taken alarm. 



Its color in life is generally light cream-color, often with a rosy or 

 flesh-colored tint, and frequently with a darker grayish or greenish 

 median streak on each ray. It becomes at least a foot in diameter 

 at Bei'muda. 



Linckia Gnildingli Gray. 



Linekia GuUdingii Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vi, p. 285. Perrier, 

 Arch. Zool. Exper., iv, p. 408, 1875. A. Agassiz, N. Amer. Starfishes, p. 105, 

 pi. xiv, figs. 1-6. H. L. Clark, Ann. N. York Acad., xi, p. 412, 1898. 

 Verrill, these Trans., x, p. 671. {Ophidiaster, by error, on p. 584.) 



Ophidiaster ornithopus Miill. & Troschel, Syst. Aster., p. 31, 1842. 



Linckia ornithopus Verrill, these Trans., vol. i, p. 367. 



Several small specimens of this species were taken, mostly at 

 Hungry Bay and Long Bird Island, under stone's below low-tide. 

 It is dull orano-e or oi'ange-brown in life. 



