46 (Bulletin of the (Natural History Society. 
baliits seems to be much like Crossaster. Its development is entirely un- 
known. though from its relationship to CribreHa it is not improbable that 
it will be found to be viviparous. 
15. CribreHa saiigiiiiioleiita, (0. F. Muller), Lutken. 
Linkia oculata, FORRES, (D). Linkia pertusa, ([))• Cri- 
hrella oculata, (Linck), Forbes, (U). [See Plate, Fig. 9.], 
‘‘Eyed Cribrella.” 
Descriptio^^^. (A) p. 100, (K) p. 112, (T) p. 113, (U) p. 32. 
Figure. (A) p. 100, (K) p. 112, (T) pi. XVIII., (U) pi. II. 
Distribution, {a) General ; — Low- water mark to 194 fa- 
thoms. Long Island Sound to Waigat Strait on the West 
Coast of Greenland. Around the Xorth Atlantic and Arctic- 
Oceans to Great Britain and the English Channel. Spitzber- 
gen, White Sea, Sea of Ochhotsk, Alaska. 
(b) In N. B. ivaters ; — Grand Manan, low-water mark to thirty 
fathoms on rocks, Sti7/ipso7i, (D), Verrill fL). Eastport, low 
water to twenty-five fathoms, abundant, Verrill, (L), (N.) Bay 
of Fundy, low water to 100 fathoms, very common, Verrill, (Q). 
Shediac, on the oyster beds ; deeper parts of Gulf of St. Law- 
rence, Whiteaces, (P). Abundant everywhere in the sheltered 
harbors of the southern coast. 
This species cannot be mistaken for any other upon our coast. It is 
the only one of the tive-rayed (not pentagonal) Starlishes which has but 
two rows of tube-feet to each ray — all others having four. Its smooth 
appearance and bright colors are also characteristic, and these features, 
together with its rather graceful form, make it a very pretty Starfish. 
In size it varies greatty. Upon the shores at low water specimens 
occur of from the smallest size up to one inch in diameter. In deeper 
water they grow much larger. The largest of which the writer has been 
able to find an}^ record is one found by Sars on the coast of Norway, 
which was a little over six and one-half inches in diameter, and another 
mentioned by Forbes, seven inches in diameter. But the writer has in 
his collection two specimens dredged in L’Etang harbor in the summer 
of 1886, one of which was ten and the other eight inches in diameter 
when alive ; even in the dried state the former is a little over nine and 
the latter seven and one-half inches in diameter. Specimens five or six 
inches in diameter are not rare in our waters. 
There are usually five rays, though very rarety six or seven-rayed 
forms may be met with. The proportional size of the length of the 
rays to the diameter of the disk varies greatly according to the size, and 
