A. #. Verrill~Marine Fauna of North America. 473 
nearly as wide as the zocecial apertures, smooth, shining, some- 
times sculptured with raised lines, or with rounded sunken 
areas on the sides. A small oval disk on the lateral surfaces 
of the zocecia. Avicularia small, with a rather short, thic 
swollen head, the pedicel shorter than the Mn dating diameter of 
the head, attached to the distal end of the ZOOe 
East of George’s Bank, 220 fathoms, on Anais Normant. 
Presented to the U. S. Fish Commission by the captain and 
crew of the schooner “ Alice G. Wunso 
EcuInoDERMATA. 
Solaster Earllii, sp. nov. 
A large, handsome species. Arms nine in our specimen, 
elongated, tapering. Upper surface thickly covered with clus- 
ters of divergent spinules, mostly six to eight, much smaller 
and shorter than in C. papposus. Marginal plates large, prom- 
inent, the largest bearing about twenty spinules, in two trans- 
verse rows. Ventral plates with about seven or eight long acute 
spines in one transverse row. Adambulacral plates with about 
ve shorter, more slender spines. pen diameter 180™™; 
lesser 50™™. Taken in lat. 48° 24’; lon ~ 46, in 200 to 250 
fathoms, by the schooner “ Bessie W. om >and presented 
to the U. §. Fish Com. b by Capt. Thomas F. ‘Hay ie: 
Dedicated to Mr. R. E. "Parll of the U.S. Fish Commission. 
Molpadia turgida, sp. nov. 
oie Ga calcareous grains, of various sizes, less numerous 
than in M. odlitica, but far more numerous and more regular 
than in AZ. borealis. These grains have a concentric structure, 
either around one, or, when oval, around two nuclei. 
perforated plates are rather large and irregular, og varied 
formed, much less irregular and larger ete . borealis. 
They usually have a central circle of thre pom foramina, 
then a circle of ten or more, larger, oval nay separated by 
a thin framework, which runs out into irregular projections 
beyond the border ; the central spinule is elongated, acute, 
consisting of three or four columns. The ae est specimens 
are Fiske 125™ long, and 25 to 80™™ in dia 
Bay of Fundy,—A. E. Verrill and S$. I. Smith, 1865. Massa- _ 
chusetts Bay, 40-100 fath., soft mud, 1877, ’78; "Gulf of Maine, 
1874; Casco Bay, 1873; off Nova Scotia, 18 77, —U. §. Fish 
Commission. Gulf of St. Lawrence, Whiteaves. 
