Zoology. 481 
4. Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum, Part TIL; by Cur. 
Fr. Lurxen, (Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., 5 Rekke, naturvid. og mathe- 
metiok: Afd. 8 B. II, 4to, 109 pp- -Copenliagit, 1869).—This im- 
ous genera and species of Owhbartiinn including many new forms. 
These are followed by a synopsis of all the genera of true Ophiu- 
rians, with Latin and Danish descriptions of each, and a tabular 
view of the classification adopted ; by Latin diagnoses of the new 
genera and species; and by a résumé, in French, of the whole 
work, The tenth essay contains a critical review of the various 
genera of fossil Ophiurians hitherto described. 
e new genera are as Aen sialen pp (type, O. lim- 
a nov., St. Thomas); OpHron (type, O. intricata nov., St. 
omas);. OpHIoconIs depeis ; Puiiinesan Forbesii He eller) ; Oputop- 
SAMMUS (type, Ophiope eza Yoldii Lutk.); Opniocumra (type, 0. 
“seateagsag and gene species, “while the — — are separa- 
t very distinct genus, which t INURA 
ae nls Heller), is ee ee The teliniiad = species 
are also described: Amphipholis fissa, Amour ; Ophiar hae affi- 
nis, Feejee Is.; Ophiomastia mixta, Samoa and Feejee Ta . AS- 
perula, Feejees; O. Ate Fy Feejees; Ophiomynxa austral- 
Ophiacantha Pen acrinus, ‘Antilles: adhering to Pentacrinus ; 
Ophiothrix dohen China Sea; 0. irélinietbe, Samoa Is.; O. Ca- 
pensis, Cape, on Gorgoni. Ophiae actis clavigera Ljung. is refer- 
a ot Rte mse and identified with Asterias — Abjd. 
the we seins 7. est Indian species, hitherto referred to 
Ophiothriz violacea, is separated as a new species, Oa 
utk y species 0 this 0. echinata M. & T and 0. 
enus, rr. : 
quinquemaculata (a. Ch.) es described from the Mediterranean. 
Astrophyton Agassizii Stimp. is reported from Greenland and 
Finmark, chau not before known north of the Gulf of St. Law- 
rence. The eee sia si is based chiefly upon ~ _— 
‘Pacific 
&. Synopsis of the ae ‘and Corals of the North 
Feploring Expedition, pein Commodore C. Ringgold — Ca by Br. 
John Rodgers, U. 8. N., from 1853 to 1856. sc otinetet 
of the Essex Institute, vols. v and vi, 8vo. Salem, Mass., shah 
to October, 1869. )—This final part includes descriptions of the 
Actinians obtained by the expedition, and also a ea con- 
. ibed by me under the name, 0. macula’a, (Proc. 
: Bost patey Hist xt 388) pilouags to the latter group, and yr be called 
Pectinwra maculata, 
