126 CATALOGUE OF THE ECHINODERMATA OF 



Class. ECHINODERMATA. 



Order I. CBINOIDEA. 



Family. ANTEDONID.E. 



Genus. ANTEDON, Friminvilh. 



1. Antedon rosaceus (Linck). (Rosy Feather-star). 



Comatula rosacea, Forbes. Brit. Starfishes (1841), p. 5. 



Cullercoats, rather rare, J. A. Embleton and Beadnel Bays, 

 not rare, B. E. Off Dunstanborough and Seaham, G. H. 



This is one of the rarest of our starfishes. Messrs. Alder and 

 Hancock have obtained specimens from the Cullercoats fishing 

 lines, and Mr. Embleton has taken it in Embleton and Beadnel 

 Bays. When dredging off Dunstanborough Castle in July, 1864, 

 in company with the Bev. A. M. Norman and Mr. D. 0. Drewett, 

 we obtained three specimens from a rocky ledge in about twenty- 

 five fathoms. This, taken in connection with Mr. Embleton' s 

 remark, " not rare," leads me to suppose it is local in its habitat : 

 certainly it is very rare on the Durham coast ; for, so far as I 

 am aware, only one specimen has been taken (by Mr. G. S. 

 Brady and myself) off Seaham, in about thirty fathoms. 



Order II. OPHIUBOIDEA. 



Family. OPHIUBID^E. 



Genus. OPHIOTHRIX, Mutter and Troschel, 



1. Ophiothrix fragilis (Mutter). (Common Brittle -star). 



Asterias fragilis, Miiller. Zool. Dan. III., p. 28. PI. 

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Ophiocoma rosula, Forbes. Brit. Starfishes, p. 60. 



Ophiothrix rosula, Forbes. Trans. Linn. Soc, Vol. XIX. 

 (1845), p. 151. 



Very common all along the coast, Seaham to Holy Island, 

 G. H. Common, J. A. 



