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taken from the page proof of the article referred to, which was subsequently trans- 

 ferred to volume 40, where the name coccodistoma occurs on page 16. 



In a monograph of the crinoids of Australia, published in 1911, this form was in 

 the text included in multiradiata which was given as occurring at Madagascar and 

 Mauritius; but in a footnote it was stated that the form occurring on the south- 

 eastern coast of Africa, and at Madagascar and Mauritius, differs slightly from the 

 typical East Indian variety, and has been differentiated under the subspecific name 

 of C. m. coccodistoma. 



In my monograph on the crinoids of the Indian Ocean, published in 1912, this form 

 is referred to as Capillaster multiradiata var. coccodistoma and given as from Mada- 

 gascar, littoral and down to 30 meters. In the Siboga report, 1918, it is inserted as 

 a species, coccodistoma, in the key to the species of Capillaster. 



Genus NEMASTER A. H. Clark 



Antedon (part) POTJRTALES, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 1, No. 11, 1869, p. 356, and following 

 authors. 



Actinometra (part) P. H. CARPENTER, Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), vol. 15, 1880, p. 198, and following 

 authors. 



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



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



Nemaster A. H. CLARK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 36, 1909, p. 503 (genotype N. grandis, sp. 

 nov.); Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 22, 1909, p. 175 (referred to the Capillasterinae) ; 

 Vidensk. Medd. fra den naturhist. Forening i K0benhavn, 1909, p. 121 (multibrachiate when 

 very small; individuals of species of this genus and of Capillaster more solitary than those of 

 other genera of Comasteridae) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 40, 1911, p. 10 (represents Capillas- 

 ler in the West Indies); Mem. Australian Mus., vol. 4, 1911, p. 736 (same); Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 43, 1912, p. 390 (relation to Capillasler, Neocomntella, and Comatella); Crinoids of 

 the Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 13 (corresponds to the East Indian Capillaster). SPRINGER and 

 CLARK, Zittel-Eastman's Paleontology, 1913, p. 177 (possesses covering plates only). A. H. 

 CLARK, Internat. Revue der gesamt. Hydrobiol. u. Hydrol., 1914, pp. 3 el seq. (represents 

 Capillasler in the Atlantic; range and its significance); Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meer- 

 esfauna Westafrikas, Echinod. II, Crinoidea, 1914, p. 309 (Caribbean; corresponds to 

 Capillasler; connects the Caribbean with the southwestern Indian Ocean); Die Crinoiden der 

 Antarktis, 1915, p. 132 (covering plates); p. 181 (range; Bermudas [error for Bahamas], 

 Caribbean Sea, and southward to Brazil; corresponds to Capillaster)', American Naturalist, 

 vol. 49, 1915, p. 525 (bathymetric range); p. 539 (asymmetrical disk); Unstalked Crinoids of 

 the Siboga Exped., 1918, p. 2 (in key); Univ. Iowa, Studies in Nat. Hist., vol. 9, No. 5, 1921, 

 p. 12 (confined to the West Indies); p. 15 (in key); p. 21 (plantlike interrelationships of the 

 included forms); Smiths. Miscell. Coll., vol. 72, No. 7, 1921, p. 19. H. L. CLARK, Littoral 

 Echinoderms of the West Indies, 1921, p. 53 (West Indies; littoral). A. H. CLARK, The 

 Danish Ingolf-Exped., vol. 4, No. 5, Crinoidea, 1923, p. 38 (range); p. 50 (in key). GISLEN, 

 Zool. Bidrag fran Uppsala, vol. 9, 1924, p. 15 (multibrachiate condition of the very young 

 [from A. H. Clark]); pp. 35, 36, 38 (brachial homologies); p. 230 (covering plates). 



Diagnosis. A genus of Capillasterinae in which the arms are more than 10 in 

 number, the IIBr series are 4 (3 + 4) and the IIIBr series are 3(2 + 3), both being 

 subject to occasional variation and irregularity, the first pinnule of the undivided 

 arms arising from a IIBr or later axillary is on the first brachial, there is a syzygy 

 between brachials 2 + 3, except on arms arising from a IBr axillary on which the 

 first syzygy is between brachials 3+4, and the brachials beyond the basal are tri- 

 angular, about as long as broad, becoming elongate wedge-shaped distally. 



