RECENT OPHITRANS. 197 



219. O. CATALEIMMOIDA H. L. Clark, 1911. Bull. 75 U. S. N. M., p. 217, f. 100. 



116 PARATYPES. Off Alaskan Peninsula, 138-625 fms. Japan: off 

 Omai Saki Light, 624 fms. 



220. 0. COMPOSITA Koehler, 1897. Ann. sci. nat. Zool., ser. 8, 4, p. 350, pi. 8, f. 64, 65. 



2 specimens. Dutch East Indies: north of Sumbawa, 441 fms. 



221. O. CONFUSA Koehleu, 1905. Siboga-exp. Oph. litt., p. 59, pi 7, f. 9-11. 



2 specimens. Torres Strait: Murray Islands, Mer, southwest reef. 



222. O. CONTIGUA Lutken and Mortensen, 1899. Mem. M. C. Z., 23, p. 173, pi. 17, f. 7-9. 



1 COTYPE. Gulf OF Panama : off Malpelo Island, 899 fms. 



223. O. COSMICA Lyman, 1878. BuU. M. C. Z., 5, p. 146, pi. 10, f. 251, 252. 



12 specimens, including 9 cotypes. South of Marthas Vineyard, 1394 

 fms. Brazil: off Bahia, 358 fms. Gulf of Panama: off Mariato Point, 1672 

 fms. Chile: off Valparaiso, 2160 fms. North of New Guinea, 1070 fms. 

 West of Crozet Islands, 1600 fms. Antarctic Ocean, 1675 fms. 



224. 0. COSTATA Lutken and Mortensen, 1899. Mem. M. C. Z., 23, p. 172, pi. 17, f. 4-6. 



2 cotypes. Mexico: near Las Tres Marias Islands, 676 fms. 



225. 0. CURIMA, sp. nov. {koupihos, shorn, cropped). Plate 3, f. 1, 2. 



Disk, 5 mm. in diameter; arms about 20 mm. long. Exactly hke 0. vepra- 

 tica Lyman (from near the Kermadec Islands) save in three particulars; the 

 lower arm-spines are smooth and slender like those above them, though some- 

 what shorter, while in vepratica they are stouter and, at least at the middle of 

 the arm, are minutely thorny, under a lens. The oral papillae are flat and thin, 

 not thickened as in vepratica. The disk is covered with a very close and even 

 coat of crowded granules (hence the name) among which, at the center, are a 

 few distinct slender spines; in vepratica the granules are larger, rougher at the 

 tip, well-spaced, and much larger at the center of the disk than at the margins. 



Holotype (M. C. Z. 2029) and 1 paratype (M. C. Z. 2030). Gulf of 

 Mexico: south of the Tortugas, 860 fms. Blake St. 41. 



These are the two specimens recorded by Lyman in 1878, Bull. M. C. Z., 

 5, p. 230, as 0. vepratica. Later in working over the Blake material, Mr. 

 Lyman recorded vepratica from a number of stations. . Most of the labels with 

 the specimens however have a question mark and some have notes on peculiar 



