146 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



Ophiocoma. 

 Ophiocoma nigra, Mlill. and Tr. (0. F. MiilL). 



1789. Asterias nigra, MiiUer, Zool. Dan., vol. iii., p. 20, pi. xciii., figs. 1-4. 

 1828. OpMura granulata, Fleming, British Animals, p. 488. 



1840. Ophiocoma nigra, Miill. and Tr., Archiv f. Naturgescli. , p. 328, 



1841. „ granulata, Forbes {non Linck), British Starfishes, p. 50. 



1842. ,, Nilsoni, Miill. and Tr., Syst. d. Aster., p. 100. 

 1842. ,, nigra. Id., Ibid. 



1865. ,, „ Lyman, 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. i., p. 81. 



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



p. 111. 



1880. ,, ,, Herdman, Proc. Roy. Pliys. Soc, Edinb., vol. v., 



p. 201. 



1881. ,, ,, Leslie and Herdman, Ibid., vol. vi., p. 88. 



1882. ,, ,, Lyman, Zool. Chall. Exp., pt. xiv., p. 172. 



Id., Proc. Roy. Soc, Edinb., vol. xi., p. 707. 

 1882. ,, ,, Hoffmann, Niederland. Archiv f. Zool. Suppl.-Bd. i., 



Lief. 3, Echin., p. 4. 

 1884. ,, ,, Hoyle, Proc. Roy. Soc, Edinb., June 16. 



Habitat. British Seas. — Shetland and other localities on 

 British shore, " open sea and salt water lochs in from 7 to 30 

 fathoms water " (Forbes) ; Lamlash Bay, Arran, Firth of 

 Forth (Leslie and Herdman) ; Faroe Channel, 53 fathoms 

 (Lyman), 87 fathoms (Hoyle) ; Falmouth (B. M. Coll.). 



Other Localities. — Scandinavia (Sars) ; Bergen and Chris- 

 tiania (Copenhagen Museum) ; North European Seas 

 (Lyman) ; Barents Sea (Hoffmann). 



Ophiocten. 

 Ophiocten sericetom, Ljn. (Forbes). 



1852. Ophiura sericea, Forbes, Sutherland's Jonrn. Voy. BaflSn's Bay, vol. ii., 



p. cexv. (App.). 

 1854. Ophiocten Tcroyeri, Ltk., Vidensk. Meddel., p. 102. 

 1858. ,, ,, Id., Addit. ad Hist., pt. i., p. 52, pi. i., figs. 5a-5d. 



1864, ,, sericeum, Ljn., Ofversigt K. Akad. Vetensk., p. 360. 



1865. ,, Jcroyeri, Lyman, Hi. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. i., p. 53. 



1877. ,, ,, Marenzeller, Denkschr. d. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Bd. 



XXXV., p. 282. 



1878. ,, sericeum, Lyman, Bull. Mus. Comp, Zool., vol. v., No. 7, p. 102. 



1881. ,, ,, Duncan and Sladen, Mem. Echin. West Greenl,,p, 65, 



1882. ,, ,, Lyman, Zool. Chall, Exp,, pt, xiv,, p, 79. 



1882, „ ,, Hoffmann, Niederland, Archiv f. Zool., Suppl.-Bd. 



i.. Lief. 3, Echin., p. 3. 

 1884. „ ,, Hoyle, Proc Roy. Soc, Edinb., June 16. 



