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Siboga station 89; Pulu Kaniungan ketjil; 11 meters; coral bottom; June 21, 

 1899 [A. H. Clark, 1918] (2, Amsterdam Mus.). 



Siboga station 213; Saleyer, south of Celebes; coral reef; October 26, 1899 [A. H. 

 Clark, 1918] (1, Amsterdam Mus.). 



Challenger station 186; Prince of Wales Channel, Torres Strait (lat. 10 30' S., 

 long. 142 18' E.); 15 meters; coral mud; September 8, 1874 [P. H. Carpenter, 1888; 

 A. H. Clark, 1913] (1, B. M.). 



Mer, Murray Islands, Torres Strait; southeastern and southwestern reef flats; 



1913 [H. L. Clark, 1915, 1921]. 



Mer, Murray Islands, east flat; September 25, 1913 [H. L. Clark, 1915, 1921] 

 (1, M. C. Z., 554). 



Mer; October, 1913 [H. L. Clark, 1915, 1921] (14, M. C. Z., 553). 



Port Denison, Queensland [Liitken, 1877]. 



Bowen, Queensland [P. H. Carpenter, 1888; A. H. Clark, 1909, 1911] (1, C. M.). 



New Caledonia [A. H. Clark, 1911] (1, P. M.). 



Rotuma, outer part of the reef [Bell, 1898; A. H. Clark, 1912, 1913] (1, B. M.). 



Ruk, Caroline Islands [Hartlaub, 1891; A. H. Clark, 1912] (1, H. M.). 



Mortlock Island, Carolines [Hartlaub, 1891]. 



Dr. Sixten Bock's station 53; 2 miles east of Higashijima; 164 meters; sand and 

 broken shells; October 7, 1914 [Gisle"n, 1922]. 



Dr. Sixten Bock's station 59; eastnortheast of Anojima; 183 meters; October 15 



1914 [GisleX 1922]. 



Lot's Wife's Rock, north of the Bonin Islands, bearing NE. % E., 1.1 miles distant; 

 U. S. S. Alert, June 27, 1880 (2, U.S.N.M., 36172). 



Japan (1). PL 20, fig. 50. 



Geographical range. From Salomon, Coin Peros, and the Maldive archipelago to 

 Torres Straits, Bowen, Queensland, New Caledonia, Rotuma, the Caroline and Bonin 

 Islands, and southern Japan. 



Bathymetrical range. From the shore line down to 15 meters, and undoubtedly 

 deeper. Dr. Sixten Bock's records of 164-183 meters represent not the actual depth 

 but the length of line out. 



Remarks. The record of this species from Coin Peros is based upon Bell's men- 

 tion of "Actinometra multiradiata" from that locality. I have not seen his specimen. 

 As the specimen recorded under this name from Salomon is this species, which is 

 much more likely to occur at Coin Peros than Capillaster multiradiata, I am assuming 

 that what he really had from Coin Peros was Comatella maculata. 



History. As in the case of the preceding species (Comatella stelligerd), the first 

 specimens of this form to reach Europe were brought home by the Godeffroy Co. to 

 Hamburg, where they were labeled Actinometra fusca by Prof. C. F. Liitken and under 

 that name distributed to various museums. Actinometra fusca was never described, 

 but the name was listed in the catalogue of the Godeffroy Museum in 1877. 



During a visit to the Copenhagen Museum Dr. P. H. Carpenter examined there 

 a specimen of "Actinometra fusca" from Bowen. In the Challenger report (1888) 

 immediately after the description of his new species Actinometra maculata he remarked 

 that maculata was possibly indentical with Liitken's/usca, although (he said on the 



