A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . or the disk is prettily variegated, and there is avariety of an orange colour not uncommon in the IrishSea. Mr. Goodsir and I found some specimens in Shet-land, of a most beautiful delicate rose colour. It appearsto be very generally distributed on our shores, though Couch finds it in Cornwall; Dr. Johnston, at Berwick ;Mr. Thompson, in Strangford Lough, and the open sea onthe coast of Down; and Mr. Ball, common about believe Dr. Fleming was the first to note it as a Britishspec
A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . or the disk is prettily variegated, and there is avariety of an orange colour not uncommon in the IrishSea. Mr. Goodsir and I found some specimens in Shet-land, of a most beautiful delicate rose colour. It appearsto be very generally distributed on our shores, though Couch finds it in Cornwall; Dr. Johnston, at Berwick ;Mr. Thompson, in Strangford Lough, and the open sea onthe coast of Down; and Mr. Ball, common about believe Dr. Fleming was the first to note it as a Britishspecies, having found it in Kirkwall Bay, Orkney, unlessthe Asterias sph&rulata of Pennant be this Brittle-star,which I think is not improbable. It inhabits both theopen sea and saltwater lochs in from seven to thirtyfathoms water. I have never heard of its occurrencein a littoral locality. It is found throughout the seasof Northern Europe. Templeton at home, and DeliaChiagi abroad, have mistaken varieties of Ophiocomarosula for it. DAISY BRITTLE-STAR. 53 OPMURTDsE. DAISY BRITTLE-STAR. Ophiocoma bellis. Link. Specific character.—Disk subpentangular, convex, covered with small rosulatedscales, divided by spinous spaces. A cordiform depression opposite the originof each ray. Upper ray-scales ovate, separated and bordered by granular ray-plates, bearing from four to six conical flattened spines, which areshorter than the breadth of the ray. Bellis scolopendroides, Link, t. xl. f. 71. Asterias aculeata,Ophiura bellis, Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. 2841 ; Zool. Dan. III. p. 29, t. , Brit. Anim. p. 488. Johnston, Mag. VIII. p. 595, f. Flcmingii, Leach, Zool. Misc. II. p. bellis, Forbes, Wern. Mem. VIII. p. 126. This species is one of the prettiest of its tribe. Thedisk is large and subpentangular, and generally bulges out 54 between the insertions of the rays. The upper surface isornamented with oval, round, or
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