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but he gave manuscript names to many of the new species that he found in the 

 collection of the Paris Museum, and these names were later adopted by Johannes 

 Miiller. Gay said that Hup6 had assisted him in the preparation of his work on the 

 zoology of Chile, and Dr. R. A. Philippi ' indicated that Hup6 was chiefly responsible 

 for this portion of the work. Gay's description of Comatula picta, therefore, was 

 presumably drawn up by Hup6. But if this is true it seems strange that he should 

 have referred to picta as merely a manuscript name in Dujardin and Hup6, 1862. 

 Gay described Comatula picta as follows: 



C. radiis incrassatis, pinnatis, decem, dorso obsolete carinatis et tuberculatis; cirrhis dorsalibus 

 24; brachiis in pinnulis rubro et fusco articulatis. 



C. picta Val., Coll. du Mus. 



Especie de radios espesos, articulados, en ntimero de diez, cargados de pfnulas bastante delga- 

 das; estos radios llevan en el medio de su faz dorsal una carena poco marcada, sobre la cual existe 

 una serie de tuberculillos salientes y puntuados. Los brazos 6 las cirras dorsales son delgados, 

 articulados, desiguales y en numero de veinte y cuatro. Toda la extension del brazo y de las cirras 

 dorsales estd como articulada por manchas anulares, anternativamente encarnadinas y pardas. 



Esta linda especie de Comatula es hasta cierto punto vecina del C. carinata Lamk. Sus brazos 

 6 radios son espesos y carnudos como en esta especie, pero difiere de ella por su coloracion sumamente 

 elegante, que consiste en manchas anulares de un bruno encarnadino el cual cubre toda la estension 

 de los radios y de las pinulas. Se halla en Chile. 



Under Comatula carinata Dujardin and Hupe" in 1862 published a translation 

 of the redescription given by Miiller in 1843. They included Leach's Alecto carinata 

 hi the synonymy, and referred to Griffith's plate 8. The diameter of the animal 

 they gave as 216 mm. The habitat was given as lie de France. In a list of manu- 

 script names found with specimens in the Paris Museum they included Comatula 

 bicolor and C. picta. 



In a list of Caribbean crinoids published hi 1867 Prof. Addison Emery Verrill 

 included Antedon braziliensis Liitken from Rio de Janeiro. In a paper on the corals 

 and echinoderms collected at the Abrolhos reefs, Province of Bahia, Brazil, by Prof. 

 C. F. Hartt in 1867, published in February 1868, Professor Verrill said, under the 

 heading Antedon dubenii, that one specimen, apparently identical with this species, 

 was obtained at the Abrolhos. Its color is deep purple with large spots of yellowish 

 white on the sides of the rays. It is very different from a specimen of A. braziliensis 

 Liitken, from Rio de Janeiro sent to the Museum of Yale College by Dr. Liitken with 

 which he compared it. 



Prof. Edouard von Martens in 1869 mentioned Comatula carinata from the Mas- 

 carene Islands (= Mauritius), and recorded Comatula Solaris from Zanzibar. This 

 last was in reality the present species. 



In the article published on January 4, 1877, Dr. P. H. Carpenter said that de 

 FreViinville's Antedon gorgonia is probably the same as Lamarck's Comatula carinata. 

 It is, however, a synonym of Antedon bifida. 



In a paper on the corals and crinoids collected by the United States Coast Survey 

 steamer Blake, published on December 14, 1878, Count L. F. de Pourtales wrote 

 (under the heading Antedon meridionalis) that a species common on the coast of Brazil 

 answers to the description of Comatula carinata. He said that this species is quoted 

 as from Mauritius, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology has specimens from Zan- 



i Verb, deutschen Wiss. Ver. Santiago (Chile), vol. 2, No. 4, 1892, p. 246. 



