EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC ASTEROIDEA. 113 
The specimen described is the largest and is from St. 4742. The one from 
St. 4656 is smaller, with disk only 6 mm. across; in all particulars however, it 
agrees with the holotype. The third specimen is from St. 4742 and measures 
only 4 mm. across the disk; it is surprisingly like the holotype and offers no 
features worthy of special comment. The generic characters are well shown 
by the holotype, in which the base of each ray contains a well-developed genital 
tuft on each side. The junction of the oral plates with the interradial is very 
clear in the specimen from St. 4656. The rays of all the specimens are still 
attached to the disk, though several are broken off near the base. The presence 
of six rays and the absence of a furrow-spine ally this species with the following, 
but the general facies is quite different. They evidently form a very distinct 
section of the genus. 
Freyellidea tuberculata. 
Freyella tuberculata SutapEN, 1889. Challenger Ast., p. 638. 
Freyellidea tuberculata FisHpr, 1917. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 20, p. 429. 
The specimen at hand is of just the same size as the one described by Sladen, 
having the disk 12 mm. across and the rays 240 mm. long. It answers to the 
description in practically every particular and I have sought in vain for some 
character by which the Pacific form might be separated from the Atlantic. 
There is then in the discovery of this species in the Pacific by the ALBATROSS 
further evidence in support of the view that the true deep-sea fauna is essentially 
cosmopolitan. 
Station 4742. Eastern Tropical Pacific, 0° 3’ 24” N., 117° 15’ 48” W., 2,320 fms. Bott. temp. 34.3°. 
Fne. It. gy. glob. oz. 
One specimen and three additional arms. 
