Radiata. 3783 



with between water-marks than any of the genus. One found with 

 six rays. 



Common Cross-fish, Uraster rubens. "Craw-feet" or " Cosfit," as 

 the fishermen call them. Most abundant, and from its vast numbers 

 most destructive to the bait of the fishermen, who look on it as their 

 chief bane in their labours. The U. glacialis has not been met with 

 and identified on this part of the coast ; but it is highly probable that 

 it, as well as the less distinct species, U. violacea and hispida, would 

 be detected here, were authentic specimens, so superior to the best 

 figures, at hand to compare them with. 



Eyed Cribella, Cribella oculata. Frequent. 



Rosy Cribella, Cribella rosea. Found some years ago on the El- 

 ginshire coast, by Alexander Robertson, Esq., Woodside. Mr. Harris 

 also meets with it at Gamrie, Banffshire, and has sent two fine speci- 

 mens to the Elgin Museum. 



Purple Sun- star, Solaster endeca. Not rare at any of the fishing 

 stations of the Firth, being often brought ashore on the lines. First 

 recorded as British by Sowerby as " found by James Brodie, Esq., on 

 the Nairn coast, in the Moray Firth." 



Common Sun-star, Solaster papposa. More frequent than S. en- 

 deca. In a parcel sent from Stotfield in 1850, there were twenty-five 

 specimens of S. papposa and six of S. endeca. 



Birds'-foot Sea-star, Palmipes membranaceus. Several specimens 

 of this rare species have been obtained of late years by the Lossie- 

 mouth fishermen. Gamrie (Zool. 3307), Cullen, and Portmahomack, 

 are also places where it is known to have been brought ashore. The 

 Cullen specimen had a uniform tint of pinkish red over the whole 

 dorsal surface ; margin of the under surface deep red, centre white. 



Although Professor Forbes says of the next species, the Gibbous 

 Starlet (Asterina gibbosa), " In Scotland I have found it on the gneiss 

 rocks of Ross-shire," it is not intended to include it in this list, as in 

 all probability the part of Ross-shire referred to is that which is washed 

 by the waters of " The Minch " on the north-west, and not the eastern 

 part of the county which is bounded by the Moray Firth. 



Another star-fish also found near, but not in, the Moray Firth, is 

 Templeton's Cushion-star, [Goniaster Templetoni). " Dr. Pollexfen 

 found it on the shores of Orkney," and hence it may soon be met with 

 on the south-eastern shores of Caithness or Sutherland. 



Knotty Cushion-star, Goniaster equestris. This beautiful star-fish 

 strikes the eye of the fisherman as something worthy of being brought 

 to land, and hence it is oftener to be seen preserved by them than 



