500 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOL. XXXIV. 
Asterias multiradiata Linn mus, 1758. 
1758. Linnaus Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 663. 
Ly pe-locality.—Indian Seas. 
multiradiata=many-rayed. Lund Museum. 
This, of course, is not the Asterias multiradiata of Gray, 
which forms the type of his genus //ediaster. 
Asterias pectinata Linnaus, 1758. 
1758. Linnamus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 663. 
Type-locality.—Indian Seas. 
pectinata=combed. Lund Museum. 
Like the preceding, this was originally a composite species, 
but Doctor Carpenter has revised them both and restricted each 
name to a definite specific type. Fortunately, the history of each 
name is such as to permit of accepting his conclusions. Pectinata 
originally included the Astevias bifida of Pennant, and was used 
exclusively for that species by Barbut in 1783, Olivi in 1792, and 
by Adams in 1800; in 1777 Pennant restricted pectinata by re- 
moving Asterias bifida from it, leaving the name for certain 
tropical forms, among which was the Actinometra pectinata of 
Carpenter (the Asterias pectinata of Retzius, 1783), to which 
the name is now fixed. 
Asterias radiata W. B. Carpenter, 1866. 
1866. W. B. Carpenter, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., 1866, p. 680 
(footnote). 
Editorial error for Asterias pectinata. 
Asterias tenella Rrerzius, 1783. 
1783. WKerzius, K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl., IV, p. 241. 
Ly pe-locality—Santa Cruz (? Danish West Indies) ; later this is 
corrected to read “in oceano Americano.” 
tenella—delicate. Lund Museum. 
Astrophyton, a genus of Ophiuroidea. 
aotnp=star+ dutov=a creature. 
Astrophyton elizabethe McInrosn, 1866. 
1866. McInrosu, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb., V, p. 609 (fig.). 
Ty pe-locality—North Uist, outer Hebrides; 6 fathoms. 
‘“ Named after a zoological benefactress.” 
This is the Astervias bifida of Pennant. 
Atecto J. Mtuumr, 1843. 
1843. J. Mtiier, Abhandl. d. k. Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, 1841, 
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