BULLETIN 82, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Co man th ina schleyelii. (a) Bright yellow. 



[(&) Division series, centrodorsal and cirri light j'ellow, with dots of blackish 

 brown at the margins of the ossicles and between them ; most of the arms blackish 

 brown, dorsally with numerous oblong markings of light yellow along the median 

 line, some entirely light yellow almost to the tips ; pinnules mostly blackish brown 

 dorsally, ventrally the same basally with the tip light yellow ; disk blackish brown 

 with irregular markings of light yellow. 



(c) Ventral surface of arms and pinnules various shades of dark orange 

 red; the dorsal surface of the arms white, the pinnules with a row of white spots 

 dorsally and with the tips on both surfaces light straw yellow; elongated oral 

 pinnules white dorsally and deep orange red ventrally; centrodorsal slightly 

 grayish. 



(d) Dorsal side of arms in the proximal two-thirds white, the ventral and 

 lateral portions and the disk dark orange red; some of the pinnules dark orange 

 red, others white or very slightly pink ; pinnules on basal half of arms with tips 

 of light yellow ; centrodorsal white. 



(e) Arms dorsally white at the base with a thin wash of very dark orange 

 red on the remainder of the dorsal and lateral surfaces, ventrally very light 

 yellow ; pinnules dorsally light yellow, ventrally deep orange red with light 

 yellow tips; elongated oral pinnules light yellow, with spots of deep orange red; 

 centrodorsal yellow with a broad white median pentagon and spots of dark red- 

 dish orange at the angles; disk thin dark reddish orange with irregular markings 

 of very light transparent greenish yellow. 



(/) Centrodorsal, cirri, and division series dull orange, the last with the 

 joints almost white; arms moderately dark reddish orange; pinnules the same 

 ventrally, dorsally brighter, tipped with bright orange yellow; some of the arms 

 have areas, including also the adjacent pinnules, which are either solid white or 

 mottled white and reddish orange ; disk bright orange yellow. 



(g) Division series bright yellow; some of the arms dorsally dull orange, 

 others blackish brown ; some of the arms in the distal two-thirds white, with the 

 sides of others white and the remainder light straw yellow ; pinnules in general 

 corresponding to the color of the arms, but the pinnules arising from the white 

 sides of the arms are dull orange ; disk and proximal third of arms ventrally light 

 straw yellow; centrodorsal and cirri white. 



(A) Centrodorsal blackish brown and white; division series blackish brown, 

 chestnut, and white, the interbrachial plating white; arms of various colors, white 

 or very light chestnut dorsally and blackish brown laterally to light yellowish 

 green dorsally and laterally with an irregular stipple of very dark orange brown ' 

 ventrally some of the arms are light yellowish green, others light olive, and still 

 others blackish brown; arms that are brown dorsally or laterally are darker 

 brown vent rally; on very light yellow or light greenish yellow arms the pinnules 

 are mostly deep orange red ventrally, the basal third stippled with light olive, 

 and slightly yellowish green dorsally; on the dark orange red portions of the 

 arms the pinnules are of the same color as the latter on both surfaces and tipped 

 with white except for a fow th:it. are all white or \vhilo mottled with dark orange 



