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Danish Expedition to the Kei Islands; station 20; 50 meters; April 14, 1922 (3, 



C.M.). 



Danish Expedition to the Kei Islands; station 26; 90 meters; April 16, 1922 (1, 



C.M.). 



Danish Expedition to the Kei Islands; station 31; 50 meters; April 18, 1922 (3, 



C.M.). 



Danish Expedition to the Kei Islands; station 36; 35 meters; April 23, 1922 (6, 



C.M.). 



Danish Expedition to the Kei Islands; station 38; 35 meters; April 24, 1922 (5, 

 C.M.;4, U.S.N.M., E. 3141). 



Danish Expedition to the Kei Islands; station 54; 85 meters; May 9, 1922 (1, 



C.M.). 



Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition; Jolo, Philippines; 27 and 36-55 meters; 

 March 19 and 21, 1914 (1, C.M.). [NOTE BY A.M.C.]: This record and those of the 

 Kei Islands Expedition were obtained from the typescript of an unpublished report 

 by Mr. Clark, for the loan of which I am indebted to Dr. F. Jensenius Madsen. Most 

 of the 51 specimens are lodged in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (C.M.). 



Queensland; Eagle Island, Great Barrier Reef, north of Cooktown; T. T. Flynn 

 [H. L. Clark, 1938]. 



Northern Territory, Australia; Darwin, near Shell Islands; 5-11 meters; H. L. 

 Clark, July 1929 [H. L. Clark, 1938]. 



Darwin, near Leper Station; 5-9 meters; bottom, coralline algae, broken coral, 

 sponges and alcyonarians; H. L. Clark, May 25, 1932 [H. L. Clark, 1938]. 



Geographical range.- From the Bonin, Philippine, and Kei Islands southwards to 

 northern Australia and Queensland. 



Bathymetrical range. From the shore line down to 164 meters. 



History. Dorometra parvitirra was first discovered in the Philippines by the Chal- 

 lenger in 1875 and first described by P. H. Carpenter in 1888. It was again recorded 

 from the Philippines, from examples dredged by the Albatross in 1907 and 1909, by 

 the present author in 1908 and 1911. In 1912 a specimen given as Iridometra sp. was 

 recorded from the Albany Passage, Queensland, which since has proved to be this 

 form. In 1913 examples from the Macclesfield Bank and from the Island of Billiton 

 in the collection of the British Museum were listed, in 1918 an individual which had 

 been taken in the Philippines by the Siboga in 1899 was mentioned, and in 1922 Gislen 

 recorded this form from among the collections made by Dr. Sixten Bock in the Bonin 

 Islands. 



The first Albatross specimen from the Philippines was not recognized as belonging 

 to this species, but was described (1908) as a new type under the name of Iridometra 

 scita; and furthermore, by some curious accident, the relationships of its lower pinnules 

 were wrongly given hi the diagnosis. The specimens in the British Museum from 

 Billiton and the Macclesfield Bank were also (1913) recorded under this name. The 

 error came to light during the revision of the species of this genus in the preparation 

 of the Siboga report (1918) in which it was corrected and the pinnulation of the type 

 specimen of scita was redescribed. 



In 1938, Dr. H. L. Clark recorded the species from Darwin in northern Australia 

 as well as from the Great Barrier Reef. He gave some notes on the color in life, which 

 is apparently very variable, from "a handsome light brown and white" to "fine black, 



