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RECORDS OF W.A. MUSEUM. 
ASTERINA GUNNII. 
Gray, 1840. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 289. 
The occurrence of this species on the West Australian coast is 
quite to have been expected. All the specimens have six rays. 
From piles of old jetty, Fremantle, W.A. Two specimens. 
No. 6044. Without data, two specimens in poor condition. 
Nos. 146 and 148. 
ANSEROPODA ROSACEA. 
Asterias rosdco/s, Lamarck, 1816, Anim. s. Vert. vol. 2, p. 558, par. 3. 
Anserofoda rosacea, Fisher, 1906. Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm, for 1903, p. 1089. 
This is one of the notable starfishes in the collection, for its 
occurrence off West Australia is very interesting, even if not sur- 
prising. The present specimen is 168 mm. across, and thus some- 
what smaller than the specimen described by Muller and Troschel 
(1842) but larger than the one so finely figured by Koehler in his 
account (igio) of the shallow-water starfishes of the Indian 
Museum (PI. XX). The individual from West Australia is, in its 
dry condition, dull, deep cream-colour with not very numerous, 
well scattered small spots of deep purple on the upper surface. It 
is remarkable for having 16 rays instead of the typical number, 15. 
From Port Hedland, W.A. No. 4029. 
ECHINASTER ARCYSTATUS, ^ sp. nov. 
Plate XXI. 
Rays 5. R.=:I30 mm. r."2o mm. R.— 6.5r. Br. at base 
=24 mm. Br. at half-way point— 18 mm. Disk small ; vertical 
diameter about 20 mm. Rays rounded, tapering to a rather blunt 
point. Abactinal skeleton and that of sides of rays forming a very 
distinct net- work with meshes 4-10 mm. in diameter, and occupied 
by 10-60 papulae. The skeletal ridges carry numerous, but well- 
spaced, bluntly pointed spinelets about a millimetre high. These 
1 Gr. arhustatos — surrounded with nets, in allusion to the conspicuous reticu- 
lations of the abactinal skeleton. By an unusual typographical error in 
Hinds and Noble’s Classic Greek Dictionary, 1901, p. 102, I was led to 
write the word acrystata in naming a brittle star in 1911, Bull. U.S. Nat. 
Mns. No, 75, p. 145. Under the circumstances, the name given is obviously 
a typographical error and the brittle-star should be known as Amphiurct 
arcysiata. 
