40 Ojulletin of the Jhahiral History Society. 
10. Asteracaiitliion Grceiilaiidiciiiii, Lutken, (Steex- 
STRur). Aster acantliion Mulleri, Sars. (D), Asterias 
Grcenlandica, Sti\ (L), [p. 357.] 
Description. (U) p. 27. 
Figure. (U) pi. II. 
Distribution, (a) General; — Low-water mark to eighty 
fathoms. Grand Manaii, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Labrador, 
Discovery Bay (north of Smith Sound), Assistance Bay, S.W. 
Coast of Nova Zembla. 
(h) In N. B. waters; — Grand Man an, oft northern point 
of Duck Island, thirty fathoms, Stimpson, (D). Gulf of St. 
Lawrence, near Anticosti, Verrill, (L). [The specimens from 
the Gulf referred to in Whiteaves’ various reports as belonging 
to this species are now considered by him to be A. littoralis.] 
This rather small Starfish, though presenting no striking peculiarities 
to the eye, may nevertheless he readily distinguished from all other 
species. It is rarely or never more than two inches in diameter, and 
looks at first sight much like a young Anterim vulgaris. The spines 
upon the sides of the rays are arranged in more or less regular lines, and 
each is surrounded at its base hy a nearly or quite complete ring of 
pedicellariie. This ring of pedicellarite around the base of the spines 
on the sides of the arms affords one of the best characters for distin- 
guishing the species. The pedicellariae also form a fringe along the 
sides of the ambulacral furrow. The ambulacral spines stand in three 
to four rows and are long and cylindrical. In color it is variable, being 
sometimes, as in Stimpson’s specimens, bright red, and also gre 3 ish or 
olive-green. It seems to prefer rocky bottoms, but nothing is known 
of its habits or development. 
11. Leptasterias teiiera, (Stimpson), Verrill. Asterias 
tenera, Stimpson (Proc. Best. Soc. VIII.) 
Description. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. VIII,. 
1861-62, p. 269. 
Figure. 
Distribution, (a) General; — Cape Aim to Bay of Fundy. 
(h ) In N. B. waters ; — “At Eastport, Me, in twenty fathoms, 
I have dredged several small specimens, about an incli in di- 
ameter, that appear to be referable to this species.” Verrill (L). 
This species is not at all common in our waters, but it possesses a 
special interest on account of the way it carries its young. The latter 
