214 REPORT—1868. 
Asterias glacialis, Linn. Often brought up on the hooks of the long lines, 
from the Middle Haaf, Out Skerries. 
Miilleri (Sars). Added to the British fauna in 1861, when this pretty 
species was dredged off the Whalsey Skerries. It is very local. 
rubens, Linn. 
violacea, Miiller. 
hispida, Pennant. I am inclined to think that this and the two pre- 
ceding must be united. A. hispida was taken under stones between tide- 
marks at the Out Skerries. 
Order ECHINOIDEA. 
Echinus esculentus, Linn.=E. sphera, Forbes. Between tide-marks and in 
the laminarian and coralline zones. 
Var. tenuispina. AnEchinus was found in 1863 which must be regarded, 
I think, as a remarkable deep-water variety of esculentus. In form it 
is very high in proportion to its breadth, and the diameter is not at all 
greater below than above. The whole outline is perfectly free from any 
appearance of angularity in any part, and the spines are remarkably 
slender and delicate. It was brought up from a hard bottom 25-30 
miles north of Unst, in 110 fathoms, and has a totally different 
appearance from the shallow-water forms of the species. 
— Flemingii, Ball. Outer Haaf, frequent ; but the specimens smaller and 
also wider in proportion to the height than those from the south. One 
of the largest Shetland specimens measures three inches high and four 
wide. 
— miliaris, Leske. Common, tide-marks and Voes, and also in deep water. 
norvegicus, Diiben & Koren, Ofversigt af Skandinav. Echinodermer, 
p. 268, pl. ix. figs. 33-39. Gregariously abundant ; in immense pro- 
fusion on the Outer Skerries Haaf, 40 miles east of Whalsey Lighthouse ; 
comparatively scarce on the Unst Haaf; St. Magnus Bay frequent. The 
bulk of specimens procured do not exceed three-fifths of an inch in dia- 
meter; one specimen, however, measures 1,3, inch. The spines are 
generally more or less of a green colour ; but a beautiful variety also 
occurs in which they are vermilion-red, tipped with white. 
Toxopneustes Drobachiensis (Miiller)= Echinus Drébachiensis, Miller, Zool. 
Dan. Prodrom. p. 235, =Kchinus neglectus, Forbes, Brit. Starfishes, 
p- 172. Not common, dredged at the northern entrance to Bressay 
Sound. 
pictus, n. sp. Ambulacral pores in 4 or 5 pairs; ambulacral plates 
with one primary and many yery small tubercles. Interambulacral 
plates also with only a single primary and numerous yery small tu- 
bercles. Spines banded red and white. Diameter of a large specimen 
13 inch. In deep water, Shetland Haaf, scarce, and dredged in 40 fa- 
thoms, near the Ferne Islands, on the Northumberland coast. It is 
also among the Echinodermata dredged by Messrs. Carpenter and 
Thomson in the ‘ Lightning’ expedition during the past autumn in 
lat. 60° 28' N. long. 6° 54’ W. in 500 fathoms, stones and mud, and a ~ 
temperature of 32°. 
Distinguished at a glance from Drdbachiensis by its more slender 
spines and their coloration, which in the latter species is green or 
purple, or a mixture of those two colours and white. When the spines 
are cleared off, the shell is found to differ in having only one primary 
tubercle to each interambulacral plate, while in Dribachiensis there are 
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