THE 
SCOLOPENDROID STAR-FISH. 
KERRIER ERE EEE 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Body depressed, covered with a sub-coriaceous, 
crust muricated with tentacula. 
Mouth beneath, central, five-valved. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Sc. 
Ferruginous Star-Fish, with orbicular body 
and five slender spiny rays; the spines 
rough, and longer ae the diameter of 
the ray. 
Slender: Limbed Spiny Star-Fish. 
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This, which Ee among the snialler species of the 
genus Asterias, is by no means uncommon about the 
coasts of the northern parts: of Europe, and of our own 
island in particular. Its general colour is dusky red or 
“ferruginous, but, like most others of the genus, it va- 
ties; being sometimes brown, violet-coloured, or 
greenish. It seems most allied to the Asterias acue 
leata, from which it may easily be distinguished by 
the length and roughness of its spines~ 


