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ECHINODERMATA. 
S. papposa, Linn. 
Often thrown ashore in large quantities at Portmarnock. Dr. Ball has 
one 11 inches in diameter in his collection — rays 12 to 15 in number. 
Cypraa Europcea found in one of his specimens. Cork, Mr. Humphreys. 
Roundstone, Mr. M‘Calla. 
Genus Palmipes. 
P. membranaceus, Retz. 
Belfast Bay and Strangford Lough. A specimen 6 inches in diameter 
from Youghal, in Dr. Ball’s collection, the only specimen he obtained 
there ; but the fishermen informed him that they had often taken the spe- 
cies when trawling. Mr. J. W. Warren, in March, 1846, wrote me (I 
saw it afterwards) that he had got a very perfect specimen, dredged about 
seven miles off the Dublin coast. 
Genus Asterina. 
A. gibbosa, Penn. 
Coasts of Down, Antrim, and Dublin, W. T. ; southern and western 
shores, Dr. Ball. 
Aug. 25th, 1851. — I found several about the roots of Cystoseira in 
rock-pools at Ardglass. Strangford, W. T. Taken on South-West coast 
of Cork, Dr. Allman. Kinsale and Glendore, Dr. Ball. Lambay Island, 
W. T. Laliinch, Co. Clare, W. T. Youghal, Miss M. Ball. Cork Har- 
bour, Mr. Humphreys. Roundstone, Mr. M‘Calla.* 
Genus Goniaster. 
G. Templetoni, Thomp. 
On examination of a species of Goniaster obtained by Dr. Ball from 
the Nymph Bank more than thirty years ago, it seemed to correspond 
with the description of what Mr. Templeton considered doubtfully as the 
Ast. equestris (Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. ix. p. 237), and appearing at the 
same time to be undescribed, I named it as above. Mr. Templeton’s spe- 
cimen is not now available for comparison, but the gentleman who found 
it, on being lately shown one from the South, stated that they were cer- 
tainly of the same species. The G. Templetoni approaches the Ast. pul- 
villus, Mull. Z. D., vol. i. p. 19, tab. 19, more nearly than any other, and 
chiefly differs from it in the under surface being conspicuously tessellated. 
A specimen taken by us in Strangford Lough, 5 inches in diameter. 
June, 1844. Dr. Allman presented to the Dublin Nat. Hist. Society, a 
specimen obtained by Mr. Gabbet on the coast of Clare. Tory Island, 
Mr. Hyndman. 
Genus Asterias. 
A. aurantiaca, Linn. 
Strangford, Mr. Hyndman and W. T. One specimen dredged by us 
off Bundoran, 1840 ; one dredged off Newcastle, Co. Down, with a Donax 
trunculus in its mouth. Taken on the South-West coast of Cork gener- 
ally, and abundantly in Ross Bay, by trawling, Dr. Allman. Not uncom- 
mon in deep water at Youghal, Miss M. Ball ; who has found nine spe- 
cimens of Natica intricata and a Turritella terebra in one individual. A 
* The Rt. Hon. the Lord Chancellor Brady obtained this species at Kilkee, 
in 1855, and forwarded several specimens by post to Dr. Ball, who thus re- 
ceived them alive. 
