VERMIOLOGY. 



PLATE CLXVIII. 



ECHINUS PICTUS 

 PURPLE-LEAVED ECHINUS 



OR 



SEA EGG 



Zoophytes, 

 generic character. 



Body roundish, covered with a bony sutured crust, and usually 

 furnished with moveable spines : mouth placed beneath, and generally 

 five valved. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Cinereous,hemispherical,depressed subangular, with ten avenues 

 of pores, larger middle spaces, with a serrate suture down the 

 center, and transverse subangular alternate purple spots. 



Echinus PlCTUS : Cinereis, hemispherico, depresus, subangulos- 

 sus ambulacris denis, areis majoribus sutura 

 media serrata maculis transversis subangularibus 

 alternis purpureis. 



Echinus Basteri : Klein tab. 43./ 3. 5. ? 



Cidaris.— Cidarite. Encycl. Methodique. pL l&.fig. 4.5? mala? 

 pi 198./. c. 



