213 



Stromatopoka rdgosa. (Hall.) 



Specimens of a species, which appears to be only a variety of S. ru- 

 gosa, Tvere collected in Division G, Cape Norman. 



I have placed the genus Stromatopora here instead of among the 

 Sponges, as it appears to me, from some recent examinations that I have 

 made, to be a coral allied to Fistulipora. 



CRINOIDEiE. 



A few fragments of crinoidal columns were collected at different levels, 

 from Division G, upwards. No remains of Cystideoe were collected, and 

 only one star-fish, — described below. 



ASTERIAD^. 

 Stenastbr Huxleyi. (N. sp.) 



^^ 





Fig. 197. 



Fig. 19Y. — Stenaster Huxleyi. View of the upper side of the only specimen 



collected. 



Bescription.- — Deeply stellate, four or five inches across ; body small, 

 less than half an inch in diameter ; rays long, fiexuous, sub-cylindrical, 

 apparently angulated along the medium line on the upper side, uniformly 

 tapering to an acute point. On the dorsal side the rays are covered by 

 a multitude of small sub-angular plates, each from one-fourth to one-third 

 of a line wide. The central part of the body is not well preserved in the 



