Mr. W. K. FisIuT — Xoten on Asteroidea. r>03 



two new forms — ^l. victoria' and A. (ule(i(i\ IIo recognizes 

 PddaUiirias^ Vetrill (type, Aiiasterias c/iiroj'/iora), .'uid de- 

 scribes a new species — 1\ jo/frei. 



In tills revi.sod Atiasterias he enumerates eij^lit species: — 

 odeliiv, Koeliler ; victoruv, Kceliler ; htlyica\ Ludwi*^; cupti- 

 li/era, Kceliler; lactea, Ludwig ; ocloradiafa, Kcehler; 

 perrieri, Stiider. The type of AnaUerias — A. minuta^ 

 Perrier — is omitted. Koeliler examined the types of minuia, 

 and says : — '^J'ai pn constater que tontes ^laient parfaite- 

 meut identiques ade jeunes Sjjorasterias aatarttlra. J'estinie 

 done que 1'^. ininut", forme jeune d'une iS/)oraslenus ou 

 |)eut-ctre d^ine autre Anasterias^ ne doit pas fiojurer parnii 

 les es[)^ces du genre Anasterias" (/. c. p. 12). • Is this not a 

 hit naive? Obviously, if the fi/pe of a genus is out of 

 toiintenanee with all the other alleged species of the grouj), 

 the rest of the genus takes another name. This was exactly 

 my reasoning in 1908 *, when I renamed Ludwig's and 

 Koehler's (but not Perrier's) Anasterias, Lysasterias^ with 

 A. prrieri, Studer, as type. 



It' A. minuia is " parfaitement identiques a de jeunes 

 Sporasterias antarctica," it is not likely to be the young of 

 another Anasterias. Since there is some doubt, however, it 

 seems ill-advised to discard Sjwrasterias, a name of later 

 application for that species. There is no excuse, however, 

 lor retaining Anasterias as the name of the genus of which 

 " Anasterias " perrieri, Studer, is the oldest described 

 sj)ecies. 



Verrill t states: — "Since tlie specific name, Astirias 

 ]<errieri Studer, IbSi, was preoccupied by A. perrieri Smith, 

 1876, it requires a new name," and he christens it Anasterias 

 lijsasteria. This was quite unnecessary, as Studer never 

 tiescribed an " Asterias perrieri.^' He records Asterias 

 perrieri from Kerguelen (Abhand. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. 1884 

 (1885), Abth. ii. p. (3). He describes Anasterias perrieri '\\\ 

 " Die Seesterne Sud-Oleorgiens " (Jahrb. d. wiss. Anstalten 

 zu Hamburg, ii. 1885, p. 153), both references having been 

 recently verified by Mr. A. H. Clark. Anasterias perrieri is 

 therefore the first eombihuiion. 



Fcedaslerias, Yerrill {loc. cit. p. 385). — Type, Anasterias 

 chtrophora, Ludwig (' Seesterne Expedition Anfarctique 

 Beige,' 1903, p. 43). Verrill states: — "Its skeleton is more 



* Smilhsoniiin ^li.-cell. Coll. vol. lii. p. 87. 



t ' Mono^'raph oltiwi f?liiillow-wat r Slartishes olc.,' Suiitbsouiaii liij-t., 

 Ilarriuuui Alaska Series, vol. xiv. 1914, p. uo4. 



