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acters. In 1926 he recorded two specimens which had been collected by Mr. W. E. J. 

 Paradice, the surgeon of the Geranium, a sloop of the Royal Australian Navy, which 

 in 1924 was engaged in a detailed investigation of the Great Barrier reef on the 

 Queensland coast. 



COMATELLA MACULATA (P. H. Carpenter) 



Plate 20, Figure 50 



[See also vol. 1, pt. 1, fig. 146 (centrodorsal) , p. 220; fig. 449 (dorsal view of radial pentagon), 

 p. 353; part 2, figs. 152, 153 (analysis of arm division), p. 83; pi. 1, figs. 953, 954 (centrodorsal 

 and radials)] 



Actinometra fusca LUTKEN, Mus. Godeffroy Cat., vol. 5, 1877, p. 100 (Port Denison; nomen 

 nudum). P. H. CARPENTER, Challenger Reports, Zoology, vol. 26, pt. 60, 1888, pp. 306, 307 

 (Bowen; nomen nudum). A. H. CLARK, Vidensk. Medd. fra den naturhist. Forening i K0ben- 

 havn, 1909, p. 117 ( = maculata). 



Actinometra maculata P. H. CARPENTER, Challenger Reports, Zoology, vol. 26, pt. 60, 1888, p. 307 

 (description; Station 186; possibly identical with/usca from Bowen); pi. 5, figs. 1 a-d; pi. 55, 

 fig. 2. HARTLAUB, Nova Acta Acad. German, vol. 58, No. 1, 1891, p. 105 (Mortlock I.; char- 

 acters) ; p. 113 (in Gottingen Mus.). BELL, in Gardiner, Fauna and Geography of the Maldive 

 and Laccadive Archipelagoes, vol. 1, pt. 3, 1902, p. 225 (west reef of Hulule; very commonly 

 seen at shallow depths on lagoon reefs in all the more open atolls of the Maldives). HAMANN, 

 Bronns Klassen u. Ordnungen des Tier-Reichs, vol. 2, Abt. 3, 1907, p. 1585 (listed). A. H. 

 CLAEK, Memoirs Australian Mus., vol. 4, 1911, p. 716 (identity of Carpenter's records); 

 Crinoids of the Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 35 (of P. H. Carpenter, l88S = maculala); p. 37 (of 

 Hartlaub, lS91 = maculala); p. 38 (of Bell, 1894 = stelligera); p. 40 (of Bell, l9Q2 = Stephano- 

 metra indica, in part); Smiths. Miscell. Coll., vol. 61, No. 15, 1913, p. 76 (of Bell, 1894 = 

 stelligera; of Bell, 1902 = maculata + Stephanometra indica). H. L. CLARK, The Echinoderm 

 Fauna of Torres Strait, 1921, p. 5 (identity). 



Actinometra pulchella HARTLAUB, Nova Acta Acad. German., vol. 58, No. 1, 1891, p. 105 (Ruk, 

 Carolines; description of the specimen). 



Actinom.etra, sp. BELL, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898, p. 849 (Rotuma).- A. H. CLARK, Crinoids 

 of the Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 288 (of Bell, 1898 = C. maculata; Rotuma; Bell's account quoted); 

 Smiths. Miscell. Coll., vol. 61, No. 15, 1913, p. 3 (identity of Bell's record; outer part of reef at 

 Rotuma) . 



Comaster maculaia A. H. CLARK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 1908, p. 686 (listed). 



Phanogenia maculata A. H. CLARK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, 1908, p. 124 (listed). 



Comatella maculata A. H. CLARK, Smiths. Miscell. Coll., vol. 52, part 2, 1908, p. 207 (structure); 

 Vidensk. Medd. fra den naturhist. Forening i K0benhavn, 1909, p. 138 (synonymy; includes 

 fusca; Bowen; description of a specimen; the cirri have a transition segment); Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 40, 1911, p. 6 (Actinometra maltiradiata recorded by Bell from southeast Africa 

 is this species) ; p. 8 (southeast coast of Africa) ; p. 13 (common to southeast Africa and the 

 Bay of Bengal, but not occurring in the Arabian Sea) ; p. 16 (references to African specimens; 

 Salomon; Coin Peros; descriptions of specimens); Notes from the Leyden Mus., vol. 33, 1911, 

 p. 177 (west Java); Bull, du mus. d'hist. nat., Paris, 1911, No. 4, p. 246 (New Caledonia; 

 description); Die Fauna Siidwest-Australiens, vol. 3, Lief. 13, 1911, p. 439 (East Indian 

 species occurring south to Bowen); p. 443 (range on east coast); Memoirs Australian Mus., 

 vol 4, 1911, p. 717 (known to P. H. Carpenter from Australia); p. 721 (occurs south to Bowen); 

 p. 732 (in key); p. 739 (annotated synonymy; characters; Australian record; range); Smiths. 

 Miscell. Coll., vol. 60, No. 10, 1912, p. 4 (Ruk, Carolines; description; previously recorded by 

 Hartlaub as pulchella); Crinoids of the Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 35 ( = P. H. Carpenter's East 

 Indian specimen of pulchella [in reality this is difficilis]; =maculata of Carpenter, 1888); p. 37 

 ( = maculata and pulchella of Hartlaub, 1S91); p. 38 ( = simplex of Bell, 1894 [in reality this is 

 stelligera]) ; p. 41 ( = multiradiata Bell, 1909); p. 70 (synonymy; summary of previous records); 

 Smiths. Miscell. Coll., vol. 61, No. 15, 1913, p. 3 (published references to specimens in the 



