440 ECHINODERMATA. 



S. 2inpposa, Linn. 



Often thrown ashore in laj'ge quantities at Portraarnock. Dr. Ball has 

 one 11 inches in diameter in his collection — rays 12 to 15 in number. 

 (Jypro'a Europcpa found in one of his specimens. Cork, Mr. Humphreys. 

 Koundstone, Mr. M'Calla. 



Genus PaLMIPES. 

 P. memhranaceus, Retz. 

 Belfast Bay and Strangford Lough. A specimen 6 inches in diameter 

 from Youghal, in Dr. Ball's collection, the only specimen he obtained 

 there ; but the fishermen informed him that they had often taken the spe- 

 cies -when trawling. Mr. J. W. Warren, in March, 1846, wrote me (I 

 saw it afterwards) that he had got a very perfect specimen, dredged about 

 seven miles off the Dublin coast. 



Genus AsTERiNA. 

 A. f/ibbosa, Penn. 

 Coasts of Down, Antrim, and Dublin, AV. T. ; southern and western 

 shores. Dr. Ball. 



Auf/. 2oth, 1851. — I found several about the roots of Cystoseira in 

 rock-pools at Ardglass. Strangford, W. T. Taken on South-West coast 

 of Cork, Dr. AUman. Jvinsale and Glendore, Dr. Ball. Lambay Island, 

 W. T. Lahinch, Co. Clare, W. T. Youghal, Miss M. Ball. Cork Har- 

 bour, Mr. Humphreys. Roundstone, Mr. M'Calla.* 



Ge7lllS GOXIASTEK. 

 G. Temiiletoni, Thomp. 



On examination of a species of Goniastcr obtained by Dr. Ball from 

 the Nymph Bank more than thirty years ago, it seemed to correspond 

 with the description of what Mr. Templeton considered doubtfully as the 

 Ast. equestris (Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. ix. p. 237), and appearing at the 

 same time to be undescribed, I named it as above. Mr. Templeton's spe- 

 cimen is not now available for comparison, but the gentleman Avho found 

 it, on being lately shown one from the South, stated that they were cer- 

 tainly of the same species. The G. Templetoni a])proaches the Ast. pul- 

 villus, Miill. Z. D., vol. i. p. 19, tab. 19, more nearly than any other, and 

 chiefly difiers from it in the under surface being conspicuously tessellated. 



A specimen taken by us in Strangford Lough, 5 inches in diameter. 

 Jime, 1844. Dr. AUman jn-esented to the Dublin Nat. Hist. Society, a 

 specimen obtained by Mr. Gabbet on the coast of Clare. Tory Island, 

 Mr. Hyndman. 



Gemis AsTERiAS. 

 A. aurantiaca, Linn. 

 Strangford, Mr. Hyndman and "W. T. One specimen di-edged by us 

 off Bundoran, 1840 ; one dredged off Newcastle, Co. Down, with a Donax 

 trnncidiis in its mouth. Taken on the South-West coast of Cork gener- 

 ally, and abundantly in Ross Bay, by trawling, Dr. Allman. Not uncom- 

 mon in deep water at Youghal, ]Miss M. Ball ; who has found nine spe- 

 cimens of Natica intricata and a TurriteUa terebra in one individual. A 



* The Rt. Hon. the Lord Chancellor Brady obtained this species at Kilkee, 

 in 1855, and forwarded several specimens by post to Dr. Ball, who thus re- 

 ceived them alive. 



