54 



rj slightly raised above the surface of the radials; 

 mm. long with i \ segments, remains. 



in Stat. 89 the largest has 39 arms 111 mm. long anteriorly, 



division seri( 1 an external III Br series is missing; 



with the dorsal pole 1.5 mm. in diameter; the cirri are XII, [5, 9 mm. 



distally. Another has 28 anus the anterior 1 20 mm. and the posterior 



tli-, the former are excessively attenuated; the cirri are XII, very smal! and 



7 mm. long with [2 [3 segments. A third has 28 arms, the anterior 90 mm. 



im. in length; of the IlBr series nine are 2, the remaining one being 413 + 4 ; 



all livision series are | (3 |- 4); the cirri are X, with some additional rudimentary, 



I distally, S min. to o mm. long. A fourth has 22 arms 130 mm. long, very attenuated; 



[IBi series are 2, and five are 4 (3 f 4); the other division series are all 4 (3 -(-4); 



h the arms are much longer, the calyx is the same size as in the preceding; there are 



X interradial cirri, 8 mm. long, slender, with 12 segments. Of the remainder three have exactly 



arms, all the IIIBr series being present, four others have 37, 33, 32 and 25 arms respectively, 



•-mail, and one is an t i-armed young. 



The individual from Stat. 149 has 36 arms 110 mm. long; all the IIBr series are 2; 



of the IIIBr series is 2, the others 4 (3 -f- 4); the centrodorsal is greatly rednced, pentalobate, 



ing at the dp of one of the lobes a single cirrus 9 111111. long with 14 segments. 



The example from the reef at Stat. 209 has 42 arms 95 mm. long; live <>( the 1 1 1 > r 

 series are 2; there are Y1I cirri. 



That from Stat. 273 has 36 arms 100 mm. long ; there are two small cirri and several stumps. 

 The larger specimen from Stat. 322 has 49 arms 130 mm. long; all of the IIIBr series 

 are present; of the IIBr series six are 2 and four are 4 (3 -f 4). the latter all on two rays; 

 the centrodorsal is greatly reduced, small and sharply stellate; the rays and division series are 

 ad, and are in close lateral apposition and sharply flattened against each other; the smaller 

 has three of the rays undergoing adolescent autotomy; one partially developed cirrus remains 

 on an irregularly pentagonal centrodorsal. 



The example from Saleyer lias 40 arms So mm. long; one 1\ "Br series is present, and 

 one IIIBr series is lacking; all the division series are 4 (3 + 4); there are V cirri, and several 

 small stumps. 



4. Comantkus [Vania) parvicirra (J. Muller). 



J. M Monatsber. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., 1841, p. 1S5 (Alecto parvicirra); p. 186 



timoren 

 Archiv fur Naturgesch., 1841, I, p. 14; (Alecto parvicirra and .1. timorensis). 

 Abhandl. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., 1841, (1843), p. 216 (Alecto parvicirra and ./. 

 •sis). 



ihandl. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., 1S47 (1849), 1». 260 (Comatula [Alecto] pa> 

 p. 263 [Comatula timorensis). 



■ Mi. Ilist. nat. des zoopbytes. Échinodermi 1 >2, p. 206 (Comatula tinto- 

 p. 208 (C. brevicirra). 

 leffroy, vol. 4, 1869, p. 125 (Actinometra trachygaster, part). 



