66 R.C. Haskell on the recent Eruption of Maura Loa. 
Amphiura Holbélli (Liitken) 
Ophiopholis aculeata (Liitken), ( see 4 scolopendrica, Mill. & Trosch.). 
pe ers spinulosa (Mill. & Trosch.), 
ee 288 eucnemis (Mill. & Trosch, ). 
mentioned, Amphiura athe may be Ophiolepis et eg of Johan 
nes Maller; Aer Stimpson’s A sterophyton A agar is probably th e 
eucnemis ; and his Rscmman oih ciliata’ is igre sd o the Smal list is to *e 
added a naked Ophiuran with soft skin and tata ‘thin arms, probably an Ophio- 
acolex; but no good specimens have yet been Uae If O. arctica turns out not 
to bea 
Finally, Ophiothriz fr jr pile has been reported rr Greenland, and oa ise | 
1d localitj ij Scandi 
Lofoten, on the northwest coast of phen oy. there are found nineteen species es of 
jurans, On the shores of Finmarken (northwest coast of Norway) there are, 
en species. geograph- 
thus far, six species; and on those of Great pee aie 
ical distribution of ihe Ophiurans of Greenland is llows : 
cookery Hohn } Greenland and Spitsbergen, limited to the arctic zone. 
a pm Only in the western Atlantic; at Greenland and 
yeas ete jg, { Newfoundland. 
Essentially arctic, though found in the northern t 
enn ate, as ell as at ‘Spitsbergen and the En 
Cphiacantha spinados,f PS and American coasts of the polar sea, 
Ophiopholis acul encoun sett! sides of the Atlantic, gore = the whole arctic 
and cold tem ate zones, 0, sguamosa has probably the sam 
pe . eg Pp ly e range. 
Art. VIIL—On a Visit to the Recent Eruption of Mauna Loa, 
Hawai; by Prof Ropert C. Haske, of Oahu College, 
Honolulu. "From a letter to one of the Edito rs). 
OuR Spek consisted of Pres. Beckwith, Prof. Alexander, = 
self and twenty students of the college. _Twelve of us wen 
the source of the flow. Only two persons besides have ane fa 
reached it, though many have visited the egg on the plain 
between Hualulai, Mauna Kea and Mauna 
The eruption. broke out on the 23d of J ancinty. No earth- 
Sag e was felt in any part of the Islands at the time, but dead 
h were noticed on the 2ist and for a few days afterwards, to 
gave no evidence of disease, but seemed to have been parboiled. 
At Honolulu, 200 miles from ie eruption, the atmosphere was 
exceedingly hazy and thick. So much was this the case that it 
— considerable excitement, before the news of the eruption 
