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Habitat. British Seas. — One specimen of this species was 

 dredged at one station in the "Porcupine" Expedition of 

 1869, south-west of Ireland, 862 fathoms. 



Other Localities. — None. 



" The genus is new to north European waters " (Lyman). 

 Hitherto only two species have been described — one, 0. 

 fastigatuSy from the Hyalonema-ground south of Japan, 345 

 fathoms, and from the south-west of Papua, 800 fathoms ; 

 the other, 0. leiitus, from 600 fathoms, near the Kermadec 

 Islands.^ 



Ophiocnida. 

 OpJiiocnida hrachiata, Lyman (Montagu). 



1804. Asterias hrachiata, Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., vol. vii., p. 84. 



1841. Ophiocoitia ,, Forbes, Britisli Starfishes, p. 45. 



1842. OphioUpis ,, Mull, and Tr., Syst. d. Aster., p. 96. 



1857. Amphiura NeapoUtana, Sars, Middelhavets Litt. Fauna, p. 91, pi. i., 



figs. 11-15. 

 1859. ,, ,, Ltk., Addit. ad Hist, pt. ii., p. 114. 



1859. ,, hrachiata, Id., Ibid. 



1865. ,, ,, Norman, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 



vol. XV., p. 109. 

 1865. Ophiocnida neapolitaim, Lyman, HI. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. i., 



p. 12. 



1865. ,, hrachiata. Id., Ibid. 



1866. ,, ,, Ljn., Oph. viv., p. 317. 



1879. ,, ,, Ludwig, Mittheil. d. zool. Stat. Neapelj Bd. i., 



p. 550. 



1881. ,, ,, Leslie and Herdman, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, 



Edinb., vol. vi., p. 89. 



1882. „ ,, Lyman, Zool. Chall. Exp., pt. xiv., p. 155. 



Habitat. British Seas. — Salcombe Bay^ (Montagu) ; Coast 

 of Down and Antrim (Thompson) ; Firth of Forth (Leslie and 

 Herdman). 



Other Localities. — Mediterranean (Sars), 20 fathoms (Lud- 

 wig) ; North European Seas (Lyman). 



1 Lyman, Zool. Chall. Exp., pt. xiv., pp. 176-178. 



2 Buried in the sand in pools at extreme low-water spring tides, the tips of 

 the arms only appearing above the surface. I went to Salcombe in 1876 for 

 the special purpose of rediscovering this and one or two other of Montagu's 

 species in that locality (Norman). 



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