A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . ITIilLE-TllPED EGG-URCHIN. Mil ECIIINID^E. CI DA PURPLE-TIPPED EGG-URCHIN. Echinus miliaris. Leske. Specific Character.—Depressed ; rows of pores not parallel, three pairs of poresin ; spines longitudinally striated, shining, smooth ; strite narrower thanridges ; primaries long. Cidaris miliaris saxatilis, Leske, p. 82, tab. ii. f. A, b, c, d, t. xxxviii. f. 2, 3. Cop. in Encyc. Meth. t. exxxiii. f. 1, 2, a, miliaris, Gmelin, p. 3169. Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert. 1 Edit. II. p. 49 ; 2 Edit.
A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . ITIilLE-TllPED EGG-URCHIN. Mil ECIIINID^E. CI DA PURPLE-TIPPED EGG-URCHIN. Echinus miliaris. Leske. Specific Character.—Depressed ; rows of pores not parallel, three pairs of poresin ; spines longitudinally striated, shining, smooth ; strite narrower thanridges ; primaries long. Cidaris miliaris saxatilis, Leske, p. 82, tab. ii. f. A, b, c, d, t. xxxviii. f. 2, 3. Cop. in Encyc. Meth. t. exxxiii. f. 1, 2, a, miliaris, Gmelin, p. 3169. Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert. 1 Edit. II. p. 49 ; 2 Edit. III. p. 367. Blain- ville, Man. dActin. p. sascatUis, Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. p. 2847. Mingled with the common Egg-Urchin on oyster-bedsand scallop-banks is the little species before ns, and pro-bably it is often passed over as the young of Echinussphara. Its long purple spines, however, at once distin-guish it from the latter in its young state ; and when weexamine it more carefully we find that it presents manyexcellent characters peculiar to itself. M 162 CIDARITES. The Echinus miUaris is the least of our native
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