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Brisinga costata Verrill. 1884. 



. B. range, 888 to 1,255 fathoms, 1883. Not commou. 

 ij One of the larger examples, from station 2116, but not the largest, 

 measured 37 inches in diameter; disk, 2.75 inches; greatest breadth of 

 iarms, .75 ; length of longest spines, .62 of an inch. 

 Grihrella sanguinolenta (Miiller) Liitken. 

 B. range, shore to 194 fathoms (69 to 122 fathoms, 1883). Common 



as far south as Cape Hatteras at moderate depths ; abundant 



northward. 



Solaster ahyssicola Verrill. 1885. 



Solaster Earllii Verrill, this Report for 1882, p. G59 (not of 1879). 



B. range, 843 to 1,537 fathoms (843 to 1,395 fathoms, 1883). Not un- 

 common. 



A large species, often a foot in diameter, somewhat resembling S. 

 Earllii, but with very different spinulation on the actinal side. Eays 

 usually eight or nine, varying to seven and ten. Abactinal side covered 

 with rather small, not very close, rounded paxillse, bearing small and 

 short spinules. The branchial papulse are large and numerous, thickly 

 scattered on the disk and base of arms. Marginal plates prominent, 

 bearing a transverse, oblong group of small rough spinules in two or 

 three rows. Interbrachial ventral areas of moderate size, covered with 

 rounded paxillse similar to those of the back, but arranged in regular 

 rows, and bearing a divergent group of live to eight small rough spin- 

 ules. The adambulacral plates bear an outer transverse row of five to 

 seven, rather short, moderately thick spines, united at base and covered 

 by a thick skin ; and an inner group of three or four nearly equal and 

 rather short spines, united together by a web for about half their length. 

 Color, while living, uniform orange or deep red. Graater radius of a 

 medium sized example, 113™™ ; lesser radius, 40™™. 



Solaster endeca Forbes. 

 B. range, shore to 150 fathoms, north of Cape Cod (122 fathoms, 1883, 

 George's Bank). Commou northward from Cape Cod in moderate 

 depths. 

 Crossaster papposus M. and Tr. 

 B. range, shore to 150 fathoms, north of Cape Cod (49 to 75 fathoms, 

 1883, George's and Brown's Banks). Northern; common from the 

 Bay of Fundy northward, in shallow water. 

 Loplmster furcifer (Dub. & Kor.) Verrill = Solaster furcifer anth. Figs. 

 49, 49a. 

 B. range, 234 to 640 fathoms (150 fathoms, 1883, George's Bank). 

 Bare ; chiefly northern ; it occurs in moderate depths in the Gulf of 

 Maine and off the Nova Scotia coast. 

 Pteraster militaris M. & Tr. Fig. 35. 

 B. range, lO to 150 fathoms, north of Cape Cod (101 to 130 fathoms, 

 in 1883, off Nova Scotia). Common on the coast of Maine and north- 

 ward, in shallow water. 



