140 WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 3f> Asterias. 



125. A. membranacea. Rays broad, membranaceous, very 

 thin : beneath with 5 convex ribs. 



Br. Zool. iv f. 3i.y. 59. Linck. stell. mar. t. \.f. a 

 Body flat, with a broad membrane between the rays> 



126, A. gibbosa. Brown, very convex y covered with a 

 rough skin r with short broad rays slightly project- 

 ing. 



Sort. Cornw. tr 25. f. 25. 26. Linck. t. 3. n. 20. 



227. A- dfithrata, Rays short, thick, cancelled above, 

 hirsute underneath. 



Linck, t. 14. n. 23. t. 7. n. 9. Br. Zool. iv. n. 55. 



128 A. oculata. Purple, with smooth dotted or punctu- 

 red rays divided nearly to the base. 



Br. Zool. t. 3o./. 56. Linck. t. 36. n, 62. 



129. A. equestris. Disk tubercled : margin with oval 

 plate*, with 3-6 tubercles on each : tentacula rather 

 clavate. 



Sowerby. Miscell. t. 63. Linck. t. 12. n. 21.. t, 26. n^ 42.. 



Body red : rays a little projecting : plates on the margin fur 

 roiinded with fmall stud-like protuberances : feelers flattish, rather 

 ctavate. 



l30 A. glacialis. Disk with tubercles disposed in a cir- 

 cle : rays angular r tlie angles with prickly protube- 

 rance^. 



Linck. t. 38. 39. n. 69. Br. Zool- iv. n. 54. 



Body when alive rufous undulate with white, fometijnes grey>. 

 brown, or green : rays thick, lanceolate, -with 5 or 7 prickly an- 

 gles: tentacula numerous,, pellucid, \vitha row of fmall pinnule*, 

 each side. 



B. "With 5 radiate or filiform rays. 



131. A. Caput Medusa. With divided and repeatedly sub- 

 divided rays: disk and rays granular: mouth de- 

 pressed. 



Bdrbut t. 10. f. 12. Shaw Mifcell. t, 103. 



Body pale red: rays divided, each of the divisions branching 

 Into 2 others, which mode of fubdivision is continued to a vast 

 extent, gradually decreasing in size^ till at length the ramifications 

 amount to many thoufands, forming a beautiful net-work. 



132. A. Ophiura. Disk scaly : rays quadrangular, with 

 a single row of scales down each . 



r. Zool. iv,t. 32,yV62. Barbttt^t. to./.g. 



Body fmall, glabrous, white, grey, or reddish, orbicular, entire : 

 rays like a ferpents' tail, 4 times as long as the body, clothed 

 with a row of divergent folid fcales. 



133. A. minute. Body round, entire, with long slender 

 hirsute rays. 



Tenby Coast. Brit. Zool. iv. n. 61. 



134. A. brachiata. Body nearly circular, covered above 

 with oval scales in 10 alternate broad and narrower 

 rays : rays jointed r spinous- down the sides. 



Montague Linn. Trans. 7. p. 84. 



Body hardly half an inch in diameter, the rays 7 or 8 inches long, 

 purplish-brown, rqugh between the arms witjii minute warts : rays 

 furnished at the $idjes wUh f 



9 or 9 in a row* 



