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The radials project very slightly beyond the rim of the centrodorsal ; their antero- 

 lateral angles are slightly separated so that the bases of adjacent IBr, are not in 

 contact. The IBri are short, oblong, nearly 4 tunes as broad as long, with a low, 

 though distinct, broad rounded median carination. The IBr 2 (axillaries) are broadly 

 pentagonal, half again as broad as long, their lateral edges as long as those of the IBrj 

 and making with them a broadly obtuse angle; in their proximal two-thirds they bear 

 a broad rounded median carination similar to that on the IBr t . 



The 10 arms are about 35 mm. long. The proximal oblong bracbials have a 

 slight trace of a rounded median carination. 



P! is 4.5 mm. long, evenly tapering to a delicate tip, somewhat stiffened, rounded 

 prismatic, with 13 segments of which the first 2 are short, the third is slightly longer 

 than broad, the fourth is half again as long as broad, and those following slowly 

 increase in length so that the distal are about twice as long as broad. Beginning on 

 the third segment very smaU but very sharp spines are developed on the distal ventral 

 angles and in the middorsal portion of each segment. P 2 is 6 mm. long with 12 or 13 

 segments, resembling Pj but larger, stouter, and stiffer with slightly longer spines at 

 the distal prismatic angles of the segments. P 3 is 3 mm. long, more slender than P! 

 though essentially similar to it but without the spines on the distal edges of the seg- 

 ments; it is slightly stiffened. ?4 and the following pinnules are slightly shorter than 

 P 3 , and apparently are not stiffened, at least distally. The distal pinnules are slender, 

 5 mm. long with 15 much elongated segments. 



Localities. Investigator; ?India (probably Ceylon) [A. H. Clark, 1912, 1918] 

 (1,I.M.). 



Investigator; ?India (probably Ceylon) [A. H. Clark, 1912] (1, 1. M.). 



Investigator; 1 mile east of the Terribles, a line of rocks from 10 to 12 miles west 

 of the west point of Ramree Island, on the coast of Arrakan, Burma (lat. 1927' N., 

 long 9318' E.) ; 24 meters (1, U. S. N. M., 35370). 



Geographical range. Definitely known only from the Arrakan coast of Burma; 

 probably also occurs at Ceylon. 



Bathymetrical range. The only definite record is 24 meters. 



History. This species was first recorded under the name Prometra brevicirra 

 (nomen nudwri) on the basis of a specimen from ?India in a paper by me on a small 

 collection of crinoids from the Indian Ocean which was published in July 1912. It 

 was first described under the name Colobometra (Prometra) breiiicirra from another 

 specimen from ?India in an appendix to my memoir on the crinoids of the Indian 

 Ocean published on November 22, 1912. 



In the original description it was said to be most closely related to C. (P.) chad- 

 wicki, with which it agrees in the relative proportions of its lower pinnules, though 

 these are as a whole much shorter. It is a smaller form than chadwicki with propor- 

 tionately shorter cirri which are composed of much shorter segments. P 2 is much less 

 elongate than the same pinnule hi chadwicki, and is more slender with fewer segments 

 which do not become so elongate distally. In C. (P.) brevicirra the cirri, though short, 

 are one-third again as long as P 2 , whereas in C. (P.} chadwicki P 2 and the cirri are of 

 about the same length. In my report upon the unstalked crinoids of the Siboga 

 expedition published hi 1918 I included brevicirra in the key to the species of Decametra, 

 giving as the habitat Ceylon and vicinity. 



