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surface with small scales, pada) picide short and peoed touching each other o 
und sc dise 
wards, but within separated b neisions in allow but oe 
admitting two upper Gear piiten, The scales which cod the incisions run 
with the arm-plates, so that their combs of look ermost rows of 
arm-spines; on each side, eight of these flat papilla growing stronger above. 
Traces of papillz along the genital openi Mouth-shields twice as long as broad, 
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narrow, rounded without, within pomted. Side mouth-shields narrow and placed 
within mouth-shields proper. Mouth-papille small on side of mouth-frames, but at 
inner d pointe 
the inner end, larger and pointed. Under arm-plates, at ° long 
tumid, distinctly separated from surroundi s; bunt, a little further out, not 
, and havi pentagonal, or 0 pe le-pores u 
Along the outer edge of each side arm-plate, and so e inner edge of each 
aplacid Ragbe runs a close ro seven broad, flat papille, ae wh t is not 
possible to distinguish paler from tentacle-scales. e innermost joints of the 
arm have tentacle-scales also along fe outer edge of the ntact. ‘pores. In oute 
as of arm, only one tentacle-scale and three arm-spines. Upper ts at 
ase of arms, tra apezoidal ; further eae rudimentary and triangular. Diameter of 
6mm. ; length of arms 10mm. Green land; Ne efoundlgad 
Ophiocten Kréyeri (Liitken)—Liitken, p. 51, Tab, I, fig. 5. 
(Syn. Ophiura sericea [Forbes]? Sutherland’s Journal of a Journey, cc.), 
Upper = under gL pad a — separated by a distinct line. Below, nakec 
rounded scales; above, with ten so ewhat oval r radial-shields, a rosette of plates in 
Arms rather long and thin. U anna inand ae bounded by straight cross- 
lines, Under gel sashes 8 t proportionately broad, entirely oo 63 ue 
oveua ing si Three about as long as the joints. 
side areepiee 
cpt art cree ay pores, where there are are four. Mout 
pei i Holbsti (Littken),—Liitken, p. 55, Tab. I, fig. 13. 
Ophiolepis Sundevalli (Mill. & Trosch.)?] 
Dise flat, with ae fine scales below ; those above — except some neal in 
the centre. Radial shields small, o oblong, twice as | broad, narrower inwards, 
separated by a w Bae of three e ave scales. Mouth-s ields small, angular, rounded, 
a trifle longer than broa aeery! —- larger, and us on its € 
Side mouth-shields sa enitabe aped and within the mouth-shields. Teeth 
road, below them a pair of wi mouth-papille ; another at the 
outer end of the n a and a third, lying above the second. Gout arm- 
plates twice as tone as long, transversely oval. Under arm-plates in contact, 
pen r. One tentacle-scale. Four to five te te Ir as long as 
joints. Color whitish. Greenland (Jacobshayn, Godhayn, A ). 
oms. Diameter of disc 5mm.; length of arms 35mm. ; but it grows larger. 
Asterophyton euenemis (Mill, & Trosch.). Young. 
ip on es Sn Sues are the arms only once divided aks gars 
mm. the arms are divi tea ewecend the disc is uniformly covered with 
City ines grains, but there is, as yet, no appearance of ribs, 
OPHIURANS OF GREENLAND, 
Ophiura a osa (Liitken), 
Ophiura Stuwitzii Mt ri 
Ophiura nodosa (Lit 
Ophiocten Kréyerii (Littken 
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