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V.,* related to E. depressa of the Challenger expedition. It 
has twe pairs of large, elevated, teat-like anterior tubercles, to 
which character the name refers. In form it is not unlike B. 
gigantea, but it is smaller, narrower, less massive, and ha 
much thinner, reddish brown integument, without the car- 
ye: ane character of the latter. 
The starfishes were very numerous in the deep dredgings 
* Euphronides cornuta Verrill, sp. nov. A very large species, ot gy in outline, 
with both ends rounded, the upper oat Biiiisa Be convex, dl er flat, in 
transverse section nearly semicircular. upper surface, ittle in in creer 
of the middle, are two very large, div sist blunt salaialn ae more than 
inch in length, usu swollen at base, with a narrow central tube. A little i in 
r sm 
rior ones smallest. At about the posterior fourth there is a very large, double 
median tubercle, swollen at ais rounded o' arginate at the summit, and ter- 
minated by a pair of tubular verru 
n the openi with t 
rows of small suckers near together. ‘The general eater! is “asl Agsh-bolkin, or pale 
brownish, usually with fine specks of orange-b The dorsal aud conte arginal 
ambulacral bands and their branches running sto “the sckers nd tubercles are 
deep purplish Lats ae to orange at the gin; the bands are bordered on 
each side by whit r pinkish. Tentacles, ae as se rbivor sed regions dark pur 
plish brown. The. fea lower surface is often purplish duped retibainted iti 
darker lines or wrinkles, When diste te the = in is more or less boa mgr 
ith a somewhat t gelatinous appeara but contracti sie it becomes mo 
Opaque and darker colored. The whole surface i is 5 sceiphienedt with minute ‘ieetial 
eae Length of an ordinary specimen, 300™"; breadth, 70™™; height, about 
m 
+ Zoroaster Diomedee V., sp. nov. Arms five, long, slender, tapered, angular 
above, with three or five rows of acute splsien: one median dorsal, and one late ral, 
aa : 
lari elon tapering pedice cel- 
rie are scattered over the back and sides.  pcomcoe plate very small. Color 
ps Ly orange or orange-red. Greater pene of a large one, 150™™; lesser radius, 
