220 A. E. Verrill—Marine Fauna off the New England Coast. 
Toxodora ferruginea V., sp. nov. 
Body cylindrical, sloniate ted, very contractile, liable to rup- 
ture. Skin somewhat translucent, filled with minute, reddish 
rown pigment-cells, and having numerous, minute, slender 
plates, in the shape of a bow, ora parenthesis, with the ends in- 
eurved. Tentacles stout, with numerous digitations. Length, 
50m or more; diameter, 8 to 10™™ 
Asterias Briareus V., sp. nov. 
Arms variable in puriber ; 10 in the largest example; long, 
slender; disk small. Radii as 1: 9°5; Tesser radius, 8™"; 
a ; 
plates connect the dorsal and lateral nde leaving large 
spaces, in which are numerous papule, uped in several 
clusters. Along the five wae are long, ida acute, rather 
distant spines; a few also stand on the cross ‘plates ; these 
spines are all similar and bear large, dense wreaths of small 
pedicellarize near the base. Solitary pesca i of large size 
and remarkable form are scattered between the spines, above 
and below : these are spatulate or hand- apes, the wide tips 
terminating in five or six incurved claws, which interlock 
when the pclwelabie are closed. Adambulacral spines slen- 
der, two to each plate, ne to the ventral spines, with no in- 
tervening spines nor papu 
Ophioglypha Sarsii (Liitk.) Lyman. 
Two varieties “ this species occur, which differ widely. e 
larger and smoother form, withou ut prominent disk-scales, 1s 
found exclusively in the deeper waters, while the form with 
rominent, swollen disk-scales is abundant in the recone 
localities (4 0 to 60 fathoms), though often found, also, a 
greater sel as ce oe is the form that occurs sr ae 
in the Ba f Fund and off Nova Scotia, where it grows to a 
large size, anion shaareite its character. The two forms also 
differ in other ways. 
I have seen a few four-armed specimens. Peculiar color- 
varieties are common. 
Ophioglypha signata V errill, sp. nov. 
Ophioglypha afinis Verrill, in former papers (non Liitken). 
Disk varied in color, rounded- cps ane “gta above, or 
even coneave when dried ; covered with s sg which form @ 
distinct ee? the dorsal sare is Mee ek the ventral 
nal rid e, which becomes well-marked in dry speci: 
mens ; fotdad. at the bases of the ae slight, with an irregular 
and interrupted series of minute spinules ; usually a short: row 
