140 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



Amphiura filiformis, Forbes (0. F. Miiller). 



1776. Asterias filiformis, 0. F. MlilL, Zool. Dan. Prodr., p. 235. 



Lamck., Hist. anim. sans Vert., t. ii., p. 546. 



Forbes, British Starfishes, p. 40. 



Mull, and Tr., Syst. d. Aster., p. 94. 



Forbes, Trans. Linn. See, Lend., vol. xix., p. 151. 



Sars, Middelhavets Litt. Fauna, p. 84. 



Ltk., Addit. ad Hist. Ophiur., pt. i., p. 56, pi. ii., 



figs. 11 a, 5. 

 Lyman, 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. i., p. 116. 

 Norman, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. , ser. 3, vol. xv. , 



p. 107. 

 Ljn., Oph. viv., p. 321. 



LudAvig, Mittheil. d. zool. Stat. Neapel, Bd. i., p. 549. 

 Leslie and Herdmaii, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, Edinb., 



vol. vi., p. 88. 

 Lyman, ZooL Chall. Exp., pt. xiv., p. 144. 

 Hoyle, Proc. Roy. Soc, Edinb., June 16. 



Habitat British Seas. — " Shetland, Firth of Clyde, Dur- 

 ham and ^Northumberland coasts (Norman) ;"^ Firth of Forth 

 (Leslie and Herdman) ; Faroe Channel, warm area, 555 

 fathoms (Hoyle) ; Kenmare, Ireland (B. M. Coll.). 



Other Localities. — Near Bukken, Norway, 20 fathoms 

 (Norman) ; Mediterranean, 5-100 fathoms (Ludwig). 



Amphiura securigera, Lyman (Dlib. and Kor.). 



1846. Opliio'peltis securigera, Diib. and Kor., Ofversigt Skand. Echin., p. 236, 



pi. vi., figs. 3-5. 

 ,, Sars, Oversigt Norges Echin., p. 14. 

 ,, Norman, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 



XV., p. 111. 

 ,, Ljn., Oph. viv,, p. 321. 

 ,, Lyman, Zool. Chall. Exp., pt. xiv., p. 148. 



Habitat. British Seas. — This species was first dredged near 

 our coasts by Dr Gwyn Jeffreys and the Eev. Dr Norman, 

 " six miles to the north of the Whalsey Lighthouse, Shetland, 

 in 40-50 fathoms," ^ after which it was obtained by H.M.S. 

 "Porcupine" in 1869.^ 



1 Dr Norman's paper has in addition " Killary and other marine loughs of 

 Connemara (Forbes)," but he now writes to me, " Since my paper was written 

 I have been to Killary, and find that the AmpMura, which is very abundant 

 there, is A. Chiajei, not A. filiformis." 



2 Norman, loc. cit. 



3 Depths of the Sea, p. 124 ; 1873, London. 



