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AMMOTHEA OPHIURE. 
Body lobated between the rays, covered with minutely- 
granulated scales, the sutures granulated, and somewhat 
spinulose ; rays with transverse ovate scales, squamulose 
sutures, spines short and acuminate. | 
British Museum. 
Locality unknown. 
Sp. 6. OPHIURA FLEMINGIT. 
O. corpore inter radias lobato, squamis granulosis interstiis 
granulatis; radiis squamis transversis ovatis suturis squa- 
mulosis, spinis brevioribus conicis. 
Habitat in Mari Scotico. 
FLEMING’S OPHIURE, 
Body lobated between the rays, covered with granulated 
scales, the interstices granulated; rays with transverse 
ovate scales, the sutures squamulose, the spines shorter, 
conic. 
This ophiure is very common in the Scottish sea: it was 
first noticed by the Rev. Dr. Fleming in Zetland, and af- 
terwards on many parts of the Scottish coast by myself. It 
differs from the preceding species, in having no spines 
between the scales on the body, and the spines of the 
rays are distinctly shorter, 
