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body of the Pipe-fish, the tube-feet encircling and holding the 

 prey. Apparently the asteroid was unable to hold the fish 

 firmly enough in this way, and some ten minutes after taking 

 hold of the fish the asteroid removed the arm d from the glass 

 and laid it parallel with the arm e, but on the opposite side of 

 the body of the fish, and the tube-feet of the two arms encircled 

 and firmly grasped the fish from both sides, in the way shown in 



fig. 2, some of the tube-feet being attached by their disc-like ends 

 to the body of the fish, while the others were merely laid around 

 it. The Pipe-fish made no attempt to escape ; indeed, by this 

 time it appeared to be dead. 



On the following morning I found that the Starfish was still 

 sitting over the Pipe-fish. The partially everted stomach of the 

 former could distinctly be seen wrapped round the body of 

 the latter, in the same way that one would tightly wrap a 

 cloth kettle-holder round the handle of a kettle. By this time, 

 however, the asteroid had shifted further towards the tail of the 

 fish, so that the head of the fish now projected far out to 

 the right between arms b and c. The skin of the hinder part 

 of the head and the eyes, that is the part of the fish which 

 had been within the stomach of the Starfish, had completely 

 disappeared, having apparently been digested. 



Some time between 4 p.m. on March 3rd and 10 a.m. on the 



