. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. OPHIOLEPIDAE 327 Homalopliiura inornato, with similar short genital slits, it differs in the plates being much thicker—there is even a slight indication of such thickenings as are so characteristic of O. gelida—besides other characters (cf. Fig. 42 a, b). (That the species inornata is referred to the genus Homolophhira while the present species is referred to the genus Ophiurolepis does not mean that they are essentially different, since the genus Homalophhira probably cannot be maintained as di
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. OPHIOLEPIDAE 327 Homalopliiura inornato, with similar short genital slits, it differs in the plates being much thicker—there is even a slight indication of such thickenings as are so characteristic of O. gelida—besides other characters (cf. Fig. 42 a, b). (That the species inornata is referred to the genus Homolophhira while the present species is referred to the genus Ophiurolepis does not mean that they are essentially different, since the genus Homalophhira probably cannot be maintained as distinct from Ophiurolepis, see below, p. 329.) On the whole, I think the only possible course is to regard the specimen described above as representing a separate Fig. 41. Ophiurolepis lursida, Part of oral side {a) and dorsal side (b). Part of arm in side view (c). x8. Homalophiura inornata (Lyman) (Plate VIII, figs. 4-5) Op/iiogfyp/ui inornata, Lyman, 1882. Sci. Results 'Challenger'. Ophiuroidea, p. 73, pi. iii, figs. 10-12. ? O. divisa, Liitken and Mortensen, 1899. 'Albatross' Ophiuroids, p. 127, pis. iv, figs. 10-12; V, figs. 1-2. O. inornata, Koehler, 1904. Siboga-Exped. Ophiuroidea, i, p. 40. O. inornata, Koehler, 1906. Ophiures du 'Travailleur' et du 'Talisman', p. 262. Homalopliiura inornata, H. L. Clark, 1915. Cat. Recent Ophiurans, p. 326. H. inornata, Koehler, 1922. Ophiurans of the Philippine Seas. Bull. Nat. Mus., 100, 5, p. 387, pi. 82, fig. 9. St. WS 212. 30. V. 28. 49° 22' S, 60° 10' W, 242-249 m. 3 specimens. St. WS 236. 6. vii. 28. 46" 55' S, 60° 40' W, 272-300 m. 4 specimens. St. WS 819. 17. i. 32. 52° 42'S, 62° 39'W, 312-329 m. 4 specimens. St. WS 820. 52° 53'S, 61° 51'W, 351-367 m. 3 specimens. St. WS 821. 18. i. 32. 52° 56' S, 60° 55' W, 461-468 m. Several specimens (in very poor condition). St. WS 839. 5. ii. 32. 53° 30' S, 63° 29' W, 403-439 m. i specimen. DXII 17. Please note that these images are
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