OPIIIOCOMA ERINACEUS. 



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LIST OF SPI":CIMENS. 



Catalogue j Oripiiial Number 

 Number. Number, of Spec. 



Locality. 



When 

 Collectud. 



Whence obtained. 



Nature of 

 S|K.'cimea. 



256 

 257 

 258 



259 

 260 

 261 

 262 

 26.} 

 264 

 265 

 266 

 267 

 268 

 26.9 

 270 

 271 



272 

 273 

 274 

 275 

 358 



996 

 997 

 987 

 990 

 999 

 984 

 985 

 1018 



1004 

 1101 

 1077 



63' 



63" 

 141,142 



9 



8 



7 



4 

 12-f- 

 3 

 6 

 3 

 5 

 1 

 1 



2 



5 

 2 

 4 



2 



12-- 

 12-- 

 12-- 



Miiseuni of 



Bay of Cumana. 

 Florida. 

 Cape Florida. 



Florida ? 



Tortiij^as, Fla. 



Tortii^ra.-*, Fla. 



Tortiigas, Fla. 



Ilayti. 



Tortugas, Fla. 



Ilayti. 



Key West, Fla. 



Jeremie, llavti. 



St. Thomas, "W. I 



Flori<la. 



Florida. 



West Indies. 



West Indies. 

 Tortugas, Fla. 

 Florida. 

 Florida ? 

 Florida. 



Comparative Zoology. 



Ca])t. Coutliouy. 



Prot". Agassi z. 

 Apr. 1858. J. E. Mills and 



Cr. A^'urdcnian. 



Prof. A-rassiz. 

 Mch. 1858. J. K. Mil 

 Feb. 1856. T. Lvnian. 

 Ap. 24, 1858. J. E." Mills. 



Alcoholic 



Mh. 15, 1858. 



1858. 



Mh. 6, 1856. 



1858. 



Mh. 4-19, '58. 



Smithsonian Institution. 



12-1- Tortugas, Fla. 



12-j- Florida Keys. 



6 Tortngas, Fla. 



4 Cape Florida. 



12-|- Tortngas, Fla. 



6 Tortngas, Fla. 



1 Cape Florida. 



1 West Indies. 



2 Aspinwall. 



2 St. Thorn IS, W. I. 



4 St. Thomas, W. I. 



May, 1858. 

 Mh. 18, 1858. 



E. Ilabich. 

 J. E. Mills. 

 Dr. I). F. Wcinland. 

 J. E. Mills. 

 Dr. D. F. Weinland. 

 A. II. Riise. 

 (t. Wnrdeinan. 

 Prof. Agassi z. 

 University Mnseum, 

 Copenhag'.'n. 



J. E. Mills. 

 G. Wurdcman. 



S. II. Scudder. 



Dr. Whitehnrst. 

 G. Wurdenian. 



Capt. Woodbury. 

 G. Wurdenian. 

 University Mnseum, 



Copenhagen. 

 Rev. T. Powell. 

 A. H. Riise. 

 A. H. Riise. 



Dried. 

 Alcoholic 



Alcoholic. 



Dried. 



Ophiocoma erinaceus Mull. & Trosch. 



Ophiocoma erinaceus Mull. & TuosciL Syst. Asteriden, p. 98. 

 Ophiocoma tartarea Lymax. Proceed. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., VIII. p. 78. 

 Ophiocoma erinaceus Lutkex. Addit. ad Ilist. Oph., p. 164. 



Special Marks. — Black or dark brown ; amis from three and a 

 half to five and a half times as long as diameter of disk ; two tentacle- 

 scales ; interbrachial spaces below not granulated. 



Description of a Specimen. — Diameter of disk, 25"'"'' ; breadth of 

 arm without spines, 4'°°- ; length of arm, 132"""- ; tooth-papilla3 fourteen 

 to eighteen, sometimes in transverse rows of three, sometimes irregularly 



