arms 130 mm. long and cirri XIII, 38—40, 35 mm. t<> [O mm. long; the dorsal spines 



nteenth; the longest cirrus segments are i ün as 1 



.is long A third nas arms 115 mm. long and cirri XIV, 34 41, about 30 mm. long; the 



on the tenth to the thirteenth segments; on several "f the cirri the two t" 



lirst three or four have a longitudinally elongate chisel-like apex, or 



itudinall; d; the longest cirrus segments are half again as broad as long; tin- colour 



oming purplish toward the end <>f the «irri and arms. The fourth has the arms 



mg and the cirri XVII, 41 — 43, 35 mm. to 40 mm. long; the longesl cirrus segments 



. n as broad as long ; spines ar.- developed From the twelfth onward; the colour is purple. 



In the two specimens from Stat. \<<\ the arms and cirri are slightly stouter than in the 



nul the cirri are proportionately shorter with a less marked production ol the distal 



the iegments; in one the arms are about 1 po mm. long, and the cirri are XVII, 34, 



2; mm. long; the longest cirrus segments are from halt' again to twice as broad as long; 



spines ai iloped trom the tenth or eleventh onward. and the earlier spines are doublé as 



. • ■; the colour is violet, the cirri yellow becoming violet distally in one example. 



These two :ly resemble specimens at hand from Western Australia. The cirri are 



proportionately shorter than in those from Lombok, and the dorsal and veiural profile of the 



individual segments is much less concave so that they appear much smoother, as in the Western 



Australian variety. 



Remarks. — The chief feature of this species is the long stout cirri which taper only 



very slightly if at all distally, and are composed óf short approximately equal segments which 



are never so long as broad; as I remember it the type, from Ceram, and those just described 



from Lombok have the cirri much less curved than the others which I have examined; but the 



were killed by immersion in fresh water, which may account for their condition ; those 



from Lombok have the longest proximal cirrus segments with the most produced distal ends. 



My notes on the type, which I examined during a recent visit to Paris, are as follows : 



"Les cirres sont gros et larges, distalement comprimés; du 1 :'■' ou 1 ; e article on trouve 



nes dorsales qui sont assex proéminentes ; Ie premier article est tres court; les suivants 



augmentent progressivement jusqu'aux 8 C ou 9 e , qui atteignent en longueur une moitié de la 



is les articles des cirres sont a peu pres égaux en grandeur. 11 y a dix bras, qui 



sont robustes; les plaques radiales sont cachées; 1'article IBr, est tres court. a peu pres entière- 



ment uni a. voisins; 1'article IBr axillaire est presque triangulaire, et atteint une lai 1 



fois la longueur, ils ne se touchent pas tout a fait latéralement ; les tubercules synarthriaux 

 que légèrement développés; les articles brachiaux sont extrêmement caurts, un 

 imbr pinnules sont comme dans 1' ' Amphimetra i)iil/>cr(i décrite par CARPENTER ic'est 



VAmphimelra violleri). La couleur est d'un noir brunatre". 

 Li — Ceram J. M ller; 1'. H. Carpenter; A. II. Clark); Amboina (Koehli 



: northeast of Misool 1 p .; S., i;,o 47'. 5 E.), 32 Metres (see above ; Bay of 

 1 k, 12 Metres and 1< e above); Port Molle, Queensland Bed ; A. II. Ci \rk); 



\ H.C between Fremantle and Geraldton, Western Australia, 60 — joo 



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