148 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



1865. OpMoglypha alhida, Lyman, 111. Cat. Mus. Comp. Zool., No. i., p. 49. 



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



p. 200. 



1881. ,, ,, Leslie and Herdman, Ibid., vol. vi., p. 87. 



1882. ,, ,, Lyman, ZooL Chall. Exp., pt. xiv., p. 76. 

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



Habitat. British Seas. — " Every part of our coast " (Nor- 

 man) ; Firth of Forth, Lamlash Bay, Arran (Leslie and Herd- 

 man) ; Faroe Channel, 458 fathoms (Hoyle). 



Other Localities. — Sound (Copenhagen Museum); North 

 European Seas, Mediterranean, 5-250 fathoms (Lyman) ; 

 Norway, common (Norman). 



Ophioglypha aurantiaca, Verrill.^ 



1882. OpMogly2jha aurantiaca^ Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, vol. xxiii., 



p. 141. 



1882. ,, „ Lyman, Proc. Roy. Soc, Edinb., vol. xi., p. 707. 



1883. „ „ Id., Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. x., No. 6, 



p. 290, with fig. 



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



Habitat. British Seas. — Faroe Channel at four stations, all 

 in the warm area, depth 516-570 fathoms (Lyman, Hoyle). 



Other Localities. — Off Martha's Vineyard, North-East 

 America, 192-310 fathoms (Verrill). 



Ophioglypha lacertosa, Lyman (Pennant). 



1733. Stella lumhricalis lacertosa, Linck, De Stell. Marin., pi. ii., No. 4, 



p. 47. 

 1766. Asterias ophiura, 0. F. Mvill., Zool. Dan. Prodr., p. 235. 

 1777. ,, lacertosa. Pennant, British Zoology, vol. iv., p. 63. 

 1805. ,, ciliata, Retz., Diss. Syst. sp. cogn. Aster., p. 29. 

 1816. ,, texturata (pars), Lamck., Hist. Anim. sans Vert, p. 542. 



1825. ,, cordifera, Delle Chiaje, Mem. stor. anat. anim., vol. ii., p. 358, 



pi. XX., fig. 12. 



1826. „ aurora, Risso, Hist. Nat., vol. v., p. 273, fig. 29. 



1829. ,, texturata, Forbes, Mem. Wern. Soc, vol. viii., p. 125, pi. iv., 



figs. 3, 4. 

 1835. ,, bracteata {!), Johnst., Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. viii., p. 467. 



1841. Ophiura texticrata, Forbes, British Starfishes, p. 22. 



1842. Ophiolepis ciliata, Miill. and Tr., Syst. d. Aster., p. 91. 



1858. Ophiura texturata, Ltk., Addit. ad Hist., pt. i., p. 36, pi. i., figs. 

 \a-le. 



^ This species has since been referred to the genus Ophiopleura by the 

 original describer (Amer. Journ. Sci. and Arts, vol. xxiii., pp. 218, 248, 1882). 



