Class VI. ASTERIAS. SEA-STAR. 133 



Borlases Cormvall, p. 260. tab. sxv.Jig. 23. ig. Nigra. 



Black. 



Ast. with a pentagonal body, black, with five 

 radiating streaks of white; rays hirsute oliva- 

 ceous, tessulated with deeper shades. 

 Cornwall. 



Mont, in Lin. Tr. vii. 84. 20. Brachi- 



ATA. 



* Ast. with a subpentangular body, covered 

 with small oval scales ; rays, five, very long, 

 slender, tapering; the sides furnished with 

 moveable spines ; diameter of the body scarcely 

 half an inch ; length of the rays seven or eight 

 inches, a disproportion not before observed in 

 any species of Asterias : color purplish brown 

 or bluish ash. 



Found in sand in Salcombe Bay. 



** # With more than five Rays. 



Stella decacnemos rosacea, seu decempeda Cornuhiensium. gx. Bifida. 

 Linckii, p. 55. tab. xxxvii. Jig. 66. Bifid. 



Ast. with ten slender rays, beset with tendrils 

 on their sides ; the mouth surrounded with short 

 filiform rays. 

 Cornwall. 



