APPENDIX. 353 



Patiria coccinea. Gray. Asteriscus coccineus. Midler 

 and Trosh. 43. 



The roundish group of spines between the lunate ossicules 

 is very abundant. 



2. Body jive-rayed, rays thick rounded, dorsal ossicules 

 lunate subtriangular ; arms convex above and rounded on the 

 sides. 



Patiria granifera. 



? Asterias granifera. Lam. n. 24 1 var. ap etit grains. 

 Oudart. t. 



Brown, back rather convex. 



The arms broad, rounded at the end, nearly as long as 

 the diameter of the disk, rounded above, flat beneath ; the 

 lunate dorsal ossicules covered with short crowded spines, 

 and with only a few small tufts of spines between them, the 

 ossicules of the oral surface, each with a transverse line of 

 six or eight spines. 



Inhab. ? 



Variety, the arms more slender, about one-third longer 

 than the diameter of the disk. 



Inhab.— Brit. Mus. 



The variety may be a distinct species, but the specimen 

 is not in a sufficiently good state to determine this point 

 with accuracy. 



3. The body jive-rayed, rays thick, rounded, the dorsal 

 ossicules especially ; those at the end oj the arms broad, 

 rounded ; the back covered with two or three beaked Pedi- 

 cellaria, nearly hiding the tubercles. 



Patiria ocellijera. 



Asterias ocellifera, Lam. n. 5. Oudart t. fig. 

 Body five-rayed, arms thick rounded, as long as the dia- 

 meter of the disk, bluntish at the end ; the dorsal ossicules 

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