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Torres Strait [Hartlaub, 1890, 1891; A. H. Clark, 1907, 1911, 1912]. Same (3, 

 M. C. Z., 613). 



Port Essington, Coburg peninsula, Northern Territory, Australia [A. H. Clark, 

 1911, 1913] (1, B. M.). 



Port Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia; coral reef, shallow water; Surgeon 

 Lieut. Comdr. W. E. J. Paradice, R. A. N.; H. M. S. Geranium [McNeill and Living- 

 stone, 1926]. 



Darwin; near Shell Islands; 5-11 meters; sponge and alcyonarian bottom; H. L. 

 Clark, July 1929 [H. L. Clark, 1938]. 



Broome, Western Australia; H. L. Clark, August and September 1929 and 

 June 1932 [H. L. Clark, 1938]. 



False Cape Bossut; H. L. Clark, September 1929 [H. L. Clark, 1938]. 



Hamburg southwest Australian Expedition station 14; Shark Bay, Western 

 Australia; Freycinet Reach, west of Middle Flat as far as the northern point of 

 Heirisson Prong; 11-16 meters; bottom at first sandy, later rock with coral; September 

 12, 1905 [A. H. Clark, 1911] (1). 



Hamburg southwest Australian Expedition station 22 ; Shark Bay, inner bar, on 

 the crest of the bank; 6-9 meters; bottom coarse sand, and sand and seaweed; June 

 16, 1905 [A. H. Clark, 1911; Alexander, 1914] (1). 



Hamburg southwest Australian Expedition; ?vicinity of Perth, Western Aus- 

 tralia [A. H. Clark, 1911] (1). 



Western Australia (refers to the three preceding records) [A. H. Clark, 1912; 

 Hartmeyer, 1916] (3; one or more of these is Berl. M., 5965). 



Hermit Island, northwestern Australia [A. H. Clark, 1929] (1, B. M.). 



Wooded Isle, Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia [H. L. Clark, 1923] (2). 



Australia; purchased from H. B. Preston [A. H. Clark, 1929] (2, B. M.). 



Siboga station 209; anchorage off the southern point of Kabaena Island, east of 

 the entrance to the Gulf of Boni, Celebes; 22 meters; coarse sand; September 23, 

 1899 [A. H. Clark, 1918] (1, U.S.N.M., E. 405). 



Erroneous locality. Port Molle, Queensland [A. H. Clark, 1911]. This is the 

 locality for Bell's Antedon reginae which was inadvertently considered as a synonym 

 of the present species instead of a synonym of Dichrometra articulata. 



Geographical range.- From the Marshall Islands, Samoa, and Fiji to northern 

 Australia, south to Cape Hillsborough, Queensland, and the Abrolhos Islands and 

 possibly Perth, Western Australia, and west to Kabaena Island, to the eastward of 

 the entrance of the Gulf of Boni, Celebes. 



Bathymetrical range. Littoral and down to 35 meters. 



Habits. Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark said that the single individual that he found 

 at Mer Island, Torres Strait, was an active and very graceful swimmer. 



History. Prof. Christian F. Liitken first mentioned this form under the name of 

 Antedon tener in 1877, merely including this name in a list of species with the localities 

 Port Denison, Queensland, and Samoa. 



It was described as a new species, Antedon gyges, and figured by Prof. F. Jeffrey 

 Bell in 1884 from a single specimen collected by the Alert at Thursday Island. 



In the Challenger report on the comatulids published in 1888 Dr. P. H. Carpenter 

 criticized and corrected the specific formula for Antedon gyges published by Bell in 



