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the Faroe Channel, depths 64 to 767 fathoms, and one station 

 in the cold area, depth 632 fathoms (Hoyle). 



Other Localities. — Coast of Norway (Sars) ; Hardanger 

 Fjord, 100-200 fathoms (Norman) ; West Indies, 190 fathoms 

 (Lyman). 



Ophiothrix. 



Ophiothrix fragilis, Dvib. and Kor. (0. F. Mull.). 



1789. Asterias fragilis, MiilL, Zool. Dan., vol. iii., p. 28, pi. xcviii. 



1842. Ophiothrix Eammelsbergii, Miill. and Tr., Syst. d. Aster., p. 113, pi. 



viii., fig. 3. 

 1842. ,, fragilis, Id., Ibid., p. 110, pi. ix., fig. 2. 



1846. ,, ,, Dvib. and Kor., Ofvers. Skand. Echin., p. 238. 



1857. ,, aZ&a (?), Grube, Archiv f. Naturg. , p. 344. 



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



XV., p. 107. 

 1869. ,, ,, (pars), Ltk., Addit. ad Hist, pt. iii., p. 52. 



1874. ,, ,, Lyman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. iii., pt. 10, 



p. 249. 



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



p. 551. 

 1882. ,, ,, Lyman, Zool. Chall. Exp., pt. xiv., p. 224. 



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



Hahitat. British Seas. — All round our coast (JSTorman) ; 

 Faroe Channel, two stations in the warm area, depths 87 and 

 516 fathoms (Hoyle). 



Other Localities. — Scandinavia (Diiben and Koren) ; North 

 Sea (Copenhagen Museum) ; Mediterranean (Ludwig). 



Ophiothrix ZutJceni, Wyv. Thoms. 



1873. Ophiothrix LiitJceni, Wyville Thomson, Depths of the Sea, p. 100, 



London. 

 1882. ,, ,, Lyman, Zool. Chall. Exp., pt. xiv., p. 218. 



Habitat. British Seas.— Off the south-west coast of Ire- 

 land, 180 fathoms (Thomson). 



Other Localities. — Near the Azores, 450 fathoms (Lyman). 



Ophiothrix pentaphyllum, Ljn. (Pennant). 

 1812. Asterias pentaphyllum, Pennant, British Zoology, vol. iv., pp. 54, 55. 

 1841. Ophiocoma rosula, Forbes, British Starfishes, p. 60. 

 1871. Ophiothrix pentaphyllum, Ljn., Ofvers. K. Akad. Vetensk., p. 622. 



1874. ,, ,, Lyman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. iii., 



pt. 10, p. 249. 



1880. ,, roswZa, Herdman, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, Edinb., vol. v., p. 200. 



1881. ,, ,, Leslie and Herdman, Ibid., vol. vi., p. 89. 



