436 Messrs. J. Wood-Mason and A. Alcock on 



Family Pentagonasteridse. 



Paragonaster, Sladen. 



13. Paragonaster^ sp. prox. ctenipes^ Sladen. 



Young- and rather mutilated examples from Station 117, 

 1748 fathoms. 



Colour in the fresh state pale yellowish pink. 



14. Paragonaster^ sp. 



A remarkahle species in a mutilated condition was talson at 

 Station 117, 1748 fathoms. 



It is characterized by having the papulte aggregated into 

 distinctly circumscribed inflated papularia, one at tiie base of 

 each ray. The paxillaj over the papularia are singularly 

 large and prominent. 



Order C R Y P T Z N I A. 



Family Zoroasteridae. 

 Zoroaster, Wyville-Thomson. 



15. Zoroaster J sp. 



A single specimen, not identifiable with any described 

 species, was taken at Station 108, in 1043 fathoms. It has 

 suffered so much abrasion that we are unwilling now to 

 describe it. It is characterized by the relative smallness of 

 the disk and great length of the rays, and by its very nume- 

 rous })ediccllaria^, which are of two kinds, the smaller ones 

 occurring in clusters and bunches. 



In the fresh state it was coloured orange-pink, and was 

 covered with a thick coat of mucus. 



Family Asteriadas. 



ASTERIAS, Linn. 



16. Asterias viazophorusy sp. n. 



Disk small, circular, marked off from tlic rays by a deep 

 transverse groove. Pays long, semicylindrieal, much con- 

 stricted latcially at the base ; their abaetinal surface with 

 small plates in longitudinal and transverse rows, the spaces 

 between the plates being iillod with papuUe in oval plots of 



