A MONOGRAPH OF THE EXISTING CIUNOIDS 603 



looking the mention of the well-developed and numerous cirri, I placed it in my 

 report (1918) in the synonymy of parvicirra without comment. 



In another paper published in 1915 Doctor Clark recorded and gave notes upon 

 a specimen of samoanum from Ceylon. 



In 1921 he said that since examining his material I had suggested that luteojusca 

 is identical with samoana, and after a comparison of specimens he thinks that 1 am 

 probably right. 



Subgenus COMANTHUS A. H. Clark 



Validia A. H. CLARK, Vidensk. Medd. fra den naturhist. Forening i K0benhavn, 1909, p. 142 (in 

 intent; genotype Comatula rotalaria Lamarck, 1816, which is assumed to have the characters 

 given in the redescription by Carpenter, 1888). 



Vania A. H. CLARK, Die Fauna Siidwest-Australiens, vol. 3, Lief. 13, 1911, p. 457 (no diagnosis; 

 mentioned with a single species called here Comanthus [Vania] annulate.); Memoirs Australian 

 Mus., vol. 4, pt. 15, 1911, p. 756 (characters; range; new name for Validia as originally intended; 

 genotype Alecto parvicirra J. Muller, 1841); Crinoids of the Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 11 (repre- 

 sented in the Ceylon region) ; p. 12 (represented in the Red Sea region and in the southeast 

 African region); p. 95 (diagnosis; genotype; same as Validia in intent); Unstalked Crinoids 

 of the Siboga Exped., 1918, p. 34 (in key; range); p. 48 (subgenus of Comanthus; in key). 

 GISLEN, Nova Acta reg. Soc. Upsaliensis, ser. 4, vol. 5, No. 6, 1922, p. 53 (characters) ; p. 56 

 (discussion). 



Comanthus (Validia) A. H. CLARK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 40, 1911, p. 18. 



Comanthus (Vania) A. H. CLARK, Die Fauna Siidwest-Australiens, vol. 3, Lief. 13, 1911, pp. 457, 

 465, 466. GISLEN, Nova Acta reg. Soc. sci. Upsaliensis, ser. 4, vol. 5, No. 6, 1922, p. 52 (pinnule 

 combs). 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF THE SUBGENUS COMANTHUS 



a 1 . Not less than 30 arms; size medium or large; functional cirri usually absent, such cirri as are 

 present being more or less undeveloped, and cirri being frequently altogether absent (Ceylon 

 and southern India to tropical Australia, Tonga, and Fiji, the Bonin Islands, the Philippines, 

 and Formosa (Taiwan); 0-73 [? 100] meters) timorensis, p. 603. 



a*. Not more than 30 arms; size small; a greater or lesser number of functional cirri almost invariably 

 present (Madagascar, Mauritius, the Seychelles, and Baluchistan to tropical Australia, New 

 Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, the Gilbert, Caroline, Pelew, and Bonin Islands, southern Japan, and 

 Amoy, China; 0-110 meters) parvicirra, p. 631. 



COMANTHUS TIMORENSIS (J. Miiller) 



Plate 64, Figure 181; Plate 75, Figure 204; Plate 76, Figure 205; Plate 77, Figures 206, 207 

 [See also vol. 1, pt. 1, fig. 82 (dorsal view), p. 135; pt. 2, pi. 17, fig. 1076 (oral pinnule)] 



Aledo timorensis (Mus. Leyd., MS.) J. MULLER, Monatsber. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., 1841, p. 186 

 (description; Timor); Archiv f. Naturgesch., 1841, vol. 1, p. 145 (same); Abhandl. d. k. preuss. 

 Akad. d. Wiss., 1841, 1843, p. 216 (structure). A. H. CLARK, Notes from the Leyden Mus., 

 vol. 33, 1911, p. 176 (identity); Memoirs Australian Mus., vol. 4, pt. 15, 1911, p. 711 (history; 

 identity). 



Comatula timorensis J. MULLER, Abhandl. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., 1847, 1849, p. 263 (rede- 

 scribed). DUJARDIN and HUPE, Hist. nat. des zoophytes, Echinodermes, 1862, p. 206 

 (synonymy; description; Timor). P. H. CARPENTER, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), ser. 2, vol. 2, 

 1879, p. 29 (unable to place this in Antedon or Actinometra) . A. H. CLARK, Crinoids of the 

 Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 30 (identity). 



Actinometra intricate LUTKEN, Mus. Godeffroy Cat., vol. 5, 1874, p. 190 (Tonga; Fiji; nomen nudum); 

 vol. 5, 1877, p. 100 (Port Denison; Tonga; Fiji; nomen nudum) . VON GRAFF, Challenger Reports, 

 vol. 10, pt. 27, 1884, pp. 14, 19, 37 (Tonga; myzostomes). P. H. CARPENTER, Challenger 



