382 A. E. Verrill—Marine Fauna off the 
in diameter, and of a rich purplish color, an unusual color for 
deep-sea animals. P. placenta ranges from 458 to 1230 fathoms. 
Other interesting species were Pourtalesia it ba in 1255 
to 1555 fathoms ; Aérope rostrata, in 1467 to 1608 fathoms; 
Aceste bellidifera, in 1467 fathoms; Urechinus Naresianus, in 
1809 fathoms; Salenia varispina, in 547 fathoms; and Aspido- 
diadema Antillarum. The last had not been taken before north 
of the West Indies. A large specimen occurred in 991 fathoms. 
good specimen of Rhizocrinus was taken in 2021 fathoms, 
station 2226. 
The additions to our list of starfishes have been numerous 
and important during the last two years. Two species of Bri- 
singa have been taken in many localities, sometimes in large 
numbers. One of these has often been obtained and preserved 
nearly entire. It is a handsome species,* with long slender 
arms, usually 11 or 12 in number, but varying from 9 to 13. 
e other is a coarser species, + which usually comes up broken 
into numerous fragments, by spontaneous division. 
risinga elegans V., sp. nov. Arms long and slender, usually 11 or 12, but 
eyte from 9 to 13, Seale: and finely spinulose toward the base, very aetése 
angular and dorsal with sn ape distally. Disk small, round, a little swollen, 
: in 
seattered in rou clusters, which are sometimes elongated transversely. ese: 
spinules are surrounded by clusters of minute pedicellariw. A little farther out 
the spinules and pedicellariz begin to be arranged in indefinite transverse groups, 
and still farther out there are regular and rather prominent broad, fiattened. 
0 i e nearly to i 
S 
acute spine projects epee! inward beyond the middle of the groove, so tha 
those on opposite sides interlock. The ovaries xg clustered in ey basal a of 
the arms and discharge Oy a basal pore on each side. Color in life salmon oF 
pale orange: in alcohol soon becoming yellowish white. 
Greater radius, 275™™; lesser radius, 12™"; length of the largest lateral a 
20-25™™; breadth of arms, where largest, 10™™, Some specimens have occurred 
larger than this, but the rays were bro 
T station 2035 and at ea ‘pee localities in 1883, and at —— 
2205, 2209, 2211, 2220, 2226, 2229, in 1884, in 906 to 2021 fathoms. — At statio 
+ B . nov. ge s = 
Ptpaged allied to B. coronata sesiaat The disk is round, swollen, roughly spinulose, 
nore. Arms 
Vy curved. us, om uov 
rupted, surmounted by a row of s oc short spinules. Transvere raised band: 
of pedicellarize ene Sa with the s. The ct ine Lyte bear mye 
three slender, fluted. glassy sila th ina patie verse r about iddle of the 
plate, the uppermost re and larger than the sehr th third pte small and 
slender; in addition to these there is a smaller, more slender, inner —_ situated. 
at the distal end of each plate and projecting more than half-way across the 
Si ll the — bear cei aes : minute peaies cella x Diameter” 
of disk, 28™"; breadth of arms, nea length of longest spines, 12""— 
Station 2310, in 991 fathoms (No. 7830) phe ‘dak from several other localities 
