132 A, E. Verrill on Starfishes and Ophiurians. 
spines arranged much as in the preceding, but more slender and 
less numerous, the outer ones forming two or three rows. 
Radius of disk 1:06; of rays 1°70; length of jongest spines 
‘17; diameter 12 of an inch. Color of dried specimens light 
orange-re | 
West Coast of Africa ,—Capt. W. W. Hall. Received from — 
the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Mass. 
Amphipholis abdita, sp. nov. — 
Disk small; arms much elongated, about 12 times the diam- 
eter of the disk, of nearly uniform diameter throughout the — | 
greater ~~ of their len ngt . | 
Six mouth-papille in each angle of the mouth, and two to | 
four miditions! small rounded papillee, or tentacle scales, nearthe | 
extreme outer angle. Two of the mouth-papille on each side — 
are aie close together, at about the middle of the edge of the | 
jaw; ter of these, which is about twice as wide asthe | 
inner, is flat, scarcely longer than wide, with the end obtusely 
rounded or truncate ; the inner one is scarcely wider than thick, 
oblong, rounded at the end; in one case these two papille are 
united ‘together. The third mouth- apilla is stout and rounded, 
obtuse, larger and longer than either of the others, separated 
front them m by a considerable interval, and brought close to the 
tooth at the end of the jaw, beyond which it projects inwardly 
or 
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nae pinta the surface finely granulated. The lower arm-plates 
are separated by the side plates; the two first are longer that 
broad, pentagonal, the inner end forming an obtuse angle, the 
outer edge straight; the two next are about as wide as long; 
ones with the corners rounded or truncate; the followmg — 
nes are broader than long, somewhat octagonal, the outer and a 
bake edges longest and sae straight; beyond the middle ot 
e arm they are ntagon with an inner angle. 
the first five T uccialae tes is usually only a single — of tentacle: 
scales, which are small and rounded; on the succeedin. ng Jom mts | 
there are generally two pairs, one of them rar considerably 
smaller than the other, 
rae es three, on all the ead except the first, which has 
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