MONOGRAPH OF THE EXISTING CKINOIDS. 707 



(/) Very dark wine red with just a suggestion of very dark chocolate, the 

 ends of the arms much lighter than the rest of the body and with a tinge of brown, 

 the tips of the pinnules with a suggestion of crimson. 



(g) Dark wine reel, with the ends of some of the arms light chestnut. 



(h) Dark wine red, with a tinge of dark brown, the tips of the pinnules 

 dark red. 



(i) Very dark brownish red, the tips of the pinnules very dark red. 



(j) Rich chocolate brown, with a red tinge. 



(k) Arms for about the proximal half dark orange brown, with a few median 

 white spots near the centrodorsal, the pinnules the same ventrally, dorsally slightly 

 lighter and with tips of light straw yellow ; on some of the arms the terminal half 

 is light chocolate, the pinnules the same with light straw yellow tips; other arms 

 are transparent white or white with chestnut spots, and the pinnules are trans- 

 parent white with light chestnut spots; oral pinnules chestnut with light straw 

 yellow tips ; disk chocolate in the center and chestnut on the margin. 



(I) Arms in the proximal thirds on both surfaces brownish orange, becoming 

 light olive green, and light yellowish green at the tips, the pinnules corresponding; 

 arms and pinnules with a fine stipple of bright straw yellow ; disk and centro- 

 dorsal brownish orange. 



(m) Arms dark brownish orange, slightly darker ventrally than dorsally, 

 with a stipple of light orange yellow ; pinnules dark brownish orange with numerous 

 bands, and tips, of light orange yellow, slightly darker ventrally than dorsally; 

 centrodorsal light orange yellow. 



(n) Fairly dark wine red with dorsally a coarse stipple of light straw yellow, 

 the terminal thirds of the arms light straw yellow with a slight tinge of green. 



(o) Dark wine red, regularly stippled all over, though increasingly less toward 

 the arm tips, with bright straw yellow. 



(p) Very dark wine red tinged with dark brown and coarsely stippled with 

 light straw yellow, the arms in the distal half becoming very dark olive with no 

 stipple ; tips of the pinnules light straw yellow. 



(q) Stippled with golden yellow. 



(r) Purplish wine color, the tips of the pinnules and spots on the arms bright 

 straw yellow ; cirri and centrodorsal bright straw yellow, the former with spots of 

 dark wine color.] 



\_Comantheria alternans. Orange brown, the young arms and the distal part 

 of many of the old ones bright brownish orange.] 



[Comantheria weberi. (a) Arms ventrally light yellowish green, laterally and 

 dorsally very dark brown, almost black; pinnules dark brown, tipped with light 

 yellow; disk light brown; centrodorsal dark brown, almost black; cirri dark brown. 



(b) Arms blue dorsally and very dark brown or black ventrally; pinnules the 

 same ; disk black ; centrodorsal brown ; cirri brown over silver. 



(c) Wholly very dark brown. 



(d) Entirely blackish brown except for the silver tips of the cirri. 



(e) The same as the preceding, but darker.] 



