CHARACTERISTIC DEEP-SEA TYPES. 



OPHIURANS. 



Ill 



the plates, scales, spines, and granules ( OphiopceiJole Goesiana, 

 Fig. 393 ; Ojihiwa Elcqos, Fig. 394 ; Ophioconis miliaria, 



Fig. 3();1 — Ophiop;epale Goesiana. I. 



Fig. 395). So there may be every diversity of general form, 

 from the smooth simple Ophiomuslum plamiiin (Fig. 396) to 



Fig. 394. — Ophiimi Elaps. ^\^. 



the highly complex Ophiomyces frutectosus. (Fig. 397.) No 

 conditions could well be more favorable to opliiurans than those 

 of the West Indian waters. A tropical sun gives to the shallows 



