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STROMATOPORA RTJGOSA. (Hall.) 



Specimens of a species, which appears to be only a variety of S. ru- 

 gosa, were collected in Division G, Cape Norman. 



I have placed the genus Stromatopora here instead of among the 

 Sponges, as it appears to me, from some recent examinations that I have 

 made, to be a coral allied to Fistulipora. 



CRINOIDE.E. 



A few fragments of crinoidal columns were collected at different levels, 

 from Division G, upwards. No remains of Cystideoe were collected, and 

 only one star-fish, described below. 



ASTERLAJX3E. 



STENASTER HUXLEYI. (N. sp.) 



Fig. 197. Stenaster Huxleyi. 



Fig. 197. 



View of the upper side of the only specimen 

 collected. 



Description. Deeply stellate, four or five inches across ; body small, 

 less than half an inch in diameter ; rays long, flexuous, sub-cylindrical, 

 apparently angulated along the medium line on the upper side, uniformly 

 tapering to an acute point. On the dorsal side the rays are covered by 

 a multitude of small sub-angular plates, each from one-fourth to one-third 

 of a line wide. The central part of the body is not well preserved in the 



