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in length. They also repeated his description of Comatula rosea, giving the habitat 

 as Australia, but mentioning only the specimen in the Vienna Museum. The expanse 

 was given as 135 mm. 



Dr. P. H. Carpenter in 1879 referred brachiolata to Actinometra on the basis of 

 notes made on an examination of the type in Paris. He referred rosea to Actinometra 

 with a query, as he had not personally examined it. He remarked that "Muller says 

 expressely that the first pinnules are not specially distinguished; but, except in this 

 point, he regarded it as very closely related to C. brachiolata, which is a true 

 Actinometra." 



In the Challenger report (1888) Carpenter, who had been able since the publica- 

 tion of his previous paper to examine the specimens of rosea described by Muller 

 both at Vienna and at Berlin, was able definitely to refer this form to Lamarck's 

 brachiolata. 



In his key to the species of the Solaris group of Actinometra he differentiated 

 brachiolata from the two other species which he included (pectinata and Solaris) on the 

 basis of the greater number of cirrus segments (30-35), and the fact that the basal 

 segments of the lower pinnules are not especially distinguished. 



In 1891 Dr. Clemens Hartlaub recorded a dry specimen of this species without 

 locality which he found in the Leyden Museum. 



In 1911,1 recorded 2 small specimens in the Paris Museum which had been col- 

 lected by Quoy and Gaimard, but had with them no indication of locality. I did not 

 see the dry specimen which had been described by Lamarck and subsequently rede- 

 scribed by Muller, but I have little doubt but that it was originally one of the same 

 lot. At the same time I recorded a specimen from Port Phillip which I had seen in 

 the British Museum. 



In another paper published in 1911 I recorded 3 specimens from Koombana Bay 

 and another probably from the vicinity of Perth, describing 2 of these in detail. 



In 1912, I redescribed the 2 specimens in the Berlin Museum which had been 

 recorded by Muller in 1849 and which, thanks to the courtesy of Drs. W. Weltner and 

 R. Hartmeyer, had been sent to me for examination. 



In 1913, 1 published photographs of both surfaces of the specimen probably from 

 the vicinity of Perth, and in 1914 I gave a detailed account of a specimen which had 

 been dredged by the Endeavour on the coast of Western Australia. 



Genus COMATULA Lamarck 



Asterias (part) LINNE, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 661, and following authors. 



Asleria (part) BRUNNICH, Zoologia fundamenta, 1772, p. 230. 



Comatulc LAMARCK, Extrait du cours de zool. du mus. d'hist. nat. sur les animaux sans vertefores, 

 1812, p. 35 (no definition). 



Asterias (Euryale) (part) OKEN, Lehrb. d. Naturgesch., 3 Thiel, 1815, p. 356. 



fPolyactis RAPINESQUE, Analyse de la Nature, 1815, p. 153 (no type given). 



Comatula LAMARCK, Hist. nat. des animaux sans vertebres, vol. 2, 1816, p. 530 (diagnosis; genotype 

 C. Solaris). PERON, in LAMARCK, Hist. nat. des animaux sans vertebres, vol. 2, 1816, p. 531 

 (mouth [really anus]; terminal claws). [Bosc], Nouv. diet, d'hist. nat., vol. 7, 1817, p. 398. 

 CUVIEH, Le regne animal, vol. 4, 1817, p. 12. DE BLAINVILLE, Diet, des sci. nat., vol. 10, 1818, 

 p. 107. J. S. MILLER, A Nat. Hist, of the Crinoidea, 1821, p. 128. FLEMING, The Philosophy 

 of Zool., vol. 2, 1822, p. 609. G. FISCHER, Enchiridion generum animalium, 1823, p. 27. 



