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On the specimen from Siboga station 40 only a single undeveloped cirrus with 49 

 segments remains. 



Remarks. The following species, C. vepretum, is probably merely the northern 

 race of the species under consideration. But our material as yet is insufficient to 

 enable us to form any definite conclusions. 



Localities. Lord Howe Island, east of New South Wales [A. H. Clark, 1911] 

 (1, Australian Mus.). 



Fiji; reef south-southeast of the islet at Bau, Viti LevujDr. Sixten Bock, July 

 1917 [Gislen, 1940]. 



Alert; Port Denison, Queensland; 5-7 meters [Bell, 1882; P. H. Carpenter, 1883, 

 1884, 1888; von Graff, 1884; Hartlaub, 1891; Walther, 1894; A. H. Clark, 1911, 1912, 

 1913] (1, B. M.). 



Island of Jobi (or Jobie), in Geelvink Bay, New Guinea; von Rosenberg [P. H. 

 Carpenter, 1881, 1883, 1888; BeU, 1882; Hartlaub, 1891, 1912; A. H. Clark, 1907, 

 1909, 1911, 1912] (1, L. M.). 



Binongko, Toekang Besi Islands; 6-10 meters; Willebrord Snellius, March 7-10, 

 1930 [A. H. Clark, 1936] (1, L. M.). 



Ternate; 2-4 meters; Willebrord Snellius, June 6, 1930 [A. H. Clark, 1936] 

 (1, L. M.). 



Amboina; Ludeking [A. H. Clark, 1911, 1912] (1, L. M.). 



Siboga station 240; anchorage at Banda; 9-36 meters; black sand and coral; 

 lithothamnion bank in 18-36 meters; November 22 to December 1, 1899 [A. H. Clark, 

 1918] (1, Amsterdam Mus.). 



Siboga station 149; Fau anchorage and lagoon, western coast of Gebe" Island; 

 31 meters; coral; August 10-11, 1899 [A. H. Clark, 1918] (fragment, Amsterdam Mus.). 



Siboga station 40; anchorage off Pulu Kawassang, Paternoster Islands, north of 

 Sumbava; 12 meters; coral reef; April 2, 1899 [A. H. Clark, 1918] (1, Amsterdam 

 Mus.) 



Doubtful or erroneous localities. Port Jackson, New South Wales [A. H. Clark, 

 1911, 1912] (small arm fragment, Austr. M.). 



Amboina; Dr. J. Brock [Hartlaub, 1891; A. H. Clark, 1909, 1912, 1918]. The 

 specimen on which this record is based represents C. vepretum. 



Geographical range. From Fiji, Lord Howe Island (east of New South Wales), 

 and Port Denison, Queensland, northward to Jobi Island, in Geelvink Bay on the 

 northern coast of New Guinea, and Gebe" Island, between Halmahera (Gilolo) and 

 Waigiu, and westward to the Paternoster Islands, north of Sumbava, Lesser Sunda 

 Islands. 



Bathymetrical range. From the shore line down to 31 (?36) meters. 



History. This species was first described by Dr. P. H. Carpenter in 1881 under 

 the name Antedon perspinosa from a specimen from Jobi in the Leyden Museum that 

 had been collected by H. von Rosenberg. 



In his list of specific formulae for all the known species of comatulids, published 

 in October 1882, Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell included Antedon perspinosa. He also gave the 

 formulae of some new species from the Australian seas full descriptions of which he 

 hoped to be able to publish at an early date. Although he did not say so, these new 



