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The holotype (dry) has the cirri, pinnules, and sides of the arms very pale brown, 

 nearly white, the dorsal surface of each arm with a broad dark brown or blackish 

 stripe. In alcohol the color is not essentially different. The disk is pale grayish, 

 more brown on the anal cone and dark along the margins of the food grooves. 



Notes. Dr. H. L. Clark says that there are five paratypes, also dredged hi the 

 vicinity of Broome in June 1932. Apparently all the specimens were taken at the same 

 time and place. They agree well in structural details and are distinctly more slender 

 than T. nomima. In color they show some diversity, and not one has the dark stripe 

 on the arms. Three are uniformly very light, a dull pale cream color on the dorsal 

 side. One of these has the cirri white with no markings, while in the second a few 

 distal segments of the largest cirri have a dusky blotch. The third has the cirri dusky 

 or purplish gray. The two other specimens have more or less dusky or light brownish 

 purple blotches on the brachials on each side, but these are not conspicuous. In the 

 larger the cirri are nearly white, but in the smaller they are almost lead color. 



A seventh specimen, which may properly be called a paratype, was taken on 

 Pearl Shoal in 1929. The arms are all broken and the cirri are nearly all gone, but Dr. 

 Clark did not hesitate to refer it to this species, as the pinnules correspond completely 

 and such cirri as are present agree with those of lepta. The color, a uniform light shade 

 not quite white, is also appropriate. 



Dr. Clark said that this is the most Doromeim-like of any of the four species at 

 Broome. The moniliform character of PI is by no means striking and the resemblance 

 of the comatulid to Dorometra is obvious. 



Localities. Broome, Western Australia; 9-15 meters; H. L. Clark, June 1932 

 [H. L. Clark, 1938] (1 M.C.Z., 950). Type locality. 



Pearl Shoal; H. L. Clark, 1929 [H. L. Clark, 1938]. 



Geographical range. Known only from the vicinity of Broome, Western Australia. 



Bathymetrical range. From 9 to 15 meters. 



History. Monilimetra lepta was described by Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark in 1938 

 from a specimen that he had collected at Broome, Western Australia, in 5-8 fathoms 

 in June 1932. Five others also dredged in the vicinity of Broome he designated as 

 paratypes. A seventh taken on Pearl Shoal in 1929 he also regarded as a paratype. 



TOXOMETRA PAUPERA A. H. Clark 



[See vol. 1, pt. 2, fig. 767, p. 362] 



Toxometra paupera A. H. CLARK, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 39, 1911, p. 560 (description; Albatross 

 Stas. 5519, 5536); Crinoids of the Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 232 (synonymy; localities); Unstalked 

 crinoids of the Si&oja-Exped., 1918, p. 210 (synonymy; detailed description; Siboga Stas. 79a, 

 96, 99 and Maumeri), pp. 272, 276 (listed), pi. 25, figs. 82, 83. GISLN, Nova Acta Reg. Soc. 

 Sci. Upsaliensis, ser. 4, vol. 5, No. 6, 1922, p. 7 (habitat), p. 131. A. H. CLARK, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. (Zool.),vol. 36, 1929, p. 659 (between Cebu and Leyte; 154 fathoms). 



Toxometra purpurea A. H. CLARK, Notes Leyden Mus., vol. 34, 1912, p. 138 (description; Siboga 

 Sta. 96); Unstalked crinoids of the Siboga-Exped., 1918, p. 210 (=T. paupera), pi. 25, fig. 82. 



Diagnostic features. The cirri have 13 to 16 segments, of which the longest are 

 about twice as long as broad; P 4 varies from two-thirds as long as P 3 to almost the same 

 length; the brachials are flared and spinous at their distal ends. 



Description. Centrodorsal small, truncated hemispherical, the dorsal pole small 

 and papillose; cirrus sockets arranged in three closely crowded alternating marginal 

 rows. 



