ASTERIAS ECHINITES. 
CILIRJCTER GENERICUS. 
Corpus depressum; crusta coriacea, tentaculis 
muricata. 
Os centrale, quinque valve. 
Lin. Syst. IN at. p. I098. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICVS, isfc. 
ASTERIAS subviginti-radiata, fulva, radiis 
corporeque spinosis. 
ASTERIAS ECHINITES. 
E//. Zooph. t. 60, 51 . 
Rarissims hujus Asteriee in maribus Indicia gene* 
rats exsuperat interdum diametros latitudinem peda- 
iem. Vinculo quodam communi conneftere videtur 
genera Asteris et Echini, cum alterius formam sortita 
sit depressam, alterius munita tegumento ford et crus- 
tato. Jadat Museum Leverianum pulcherrima rari 
hujus ajiimalis specimina. 
