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Siboga station 240; anchorage at Banda; 9-45 meters; black sand; coral; 

 lithothanmion bank; November 22 to December 1, 1899 [A. H. Clark, 1918] 

 (1, Amsterdam Mus.). 



Albatross station 5146; in the vicinity of Siasi, Jolo (Sulu) archipelago; Sulade 

 Island (E.) bearing N. 18 W., 3.4 miles distant (lat. 5 46' 40" N., long. 120 48' 

 50" E.); 44 meters; coral sand and shells; February 16, 1908 [A. H. Clark, 1908] (1, 

 U.S.N.M., 35049). 



Albatross station 5142; in the vicinity of Jolo; Jolo Light bearing S. 50 W., 

 3.9 miles distant (lat. 6 06' 10" N., long. 121 02' 40" E.); 38 meters; coral sand 

 and shells; February 15, 1908 [A. H. Clark, 1908] (2. U.S.N.M., 36133). 



Albatross station 5141 ; in the vicinity of Jolo; Jolo Light bearing S. 17 E., 5.5 

 miles distant (lat. 6 09' 00" N., long. 120 58' 00" E.); 53 meters; coral sand; 

 February 15, 1908 [A. H. Clark, 1908] (1, U.S.N.M., 35041). 



Albatross station 5254; Gulf of Davao; Linao Point bearing N. 44 E., 0.7 

 miles distant (lat. 7 05' 42" N., long, 125 39' 42" E.); 38 meters; sand and coral; 

 May 18, 1908 [A. H. Clark, 1909] (2, U.S.N.M., 34958, 35042). 



Albatross station 5249; Gulf of Davao; Lanang Point bearing N., 1 mile dis- 

 tant (lat. 7 06' 06" N., long. 125 40' 08" E.); 42 meters; coral and sand; May 18, 

 1908 [A. H. Clark, 1909] (2, U.S.N.M., 34960, 34962). 



Albatross station 5248; Gulf of Davao; Lanang Point bearing S. 33 W., 0.4 

 mile distant (lat. 7 07' 25" N., long. 125 40' 24" T.); 33 meters; coral bottom; 

 May 18, 1908 [A. H. Clark, 1909] (1, U.S.N.M., 34973). 



Macclesfield Bank; 55 meters [Bell, 1894; A. H. Clark, 1913] (1, B. M.). 

 Geographical range. From the Andaman and the Lesser Sunda Islands to the 

 Philippines. 



Bathymetrical range. From 31 (?9) to 55 (?538) meters; the average of 9 records 

 (omitting that from the Andaman Islands, where no depth is given, and Siboga 

 station 316, where the depth would seem to be beyond the probable limit) is 43 

 meters. 



History. This species was first mentioned by Carpenter in 1879 as one of three 

 comatulids having an anomalous arm structure. He said that in this (the third 

 species, the others being forms of Comatula rotalaria] the rays may divide eight times, 

 and in the primary divisions there are 3 distichal joints, the first 2 of which are united 

 by ligaments and not by syzygy. But in all the subsequent divisions the first 2 

 joints beyond each axillary form a syzygy, like the second and third radials. 



The species was first described by Carpenter in 1888 from a single broken 

 specimen secured by the Challenger at Banda. A specimen from the Macclesfield 

 Bank was recorded as Actinometra regalis by Bell in 1894. 



In 1908 I recorded it from three Albatross stations in the Philippines, and in 

 1909 from three more. In 1913 I published some notes on the type specimen in 

 the British Museum, and at the same time redetermined Bell's specimen from the 

 Macclesfield Bank (erroneously) as C.fruticosus. In 1918 I recorded C. multibrachiata 

 from two of the Siboga stations hi the Dutch East Indies. 



