53 



The example from Stat. 299 has 20 arms 65 mm. long; all the IIBr series are present, 

 and all are 4 (3-1-4); the cirri are XVII, slightly more slender than usual. 



3. Comantkus {Vanid) annulata (Bell). 



LÜTKEN. Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 5, 1874, p. [90 {Actinometra intricata, part). 



BELL. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1882, p. 535, pi. 35 {Actinometra annulata). 



P. H. CARPENTER. Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), vol. 16, 1882, p. 525 [Actinometra meyeri). 



Bell. Sci. Trans. Roy. Dublin Soc. (2), vol. 3, 1887, p. 645 [Actinometra parvicirra, part). 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888, p. 384 [Actinometra parvicirra, part). 



P. H. CARPENTER. "Challenger" Reports. Comatulae, 1888, p. 314, pi. 59, fig. 3 [Actinometra 

 valida); p. 338 [Actinometra parvicirra, part); p. 346, pi. 67, figs. 1, 2 [Actinometra littoralis). 



HAMANN. Jenaische Zeitschr., vol. 23, 1889, p. 234 [Actinometra valida). 



Hartlaub. Nova Acta der Leop.-Carol- deutschen Akad. der Naturforsch., vol. 58, 1891, 

 N° 1, p. 98 [Actinometra parvicirra, part). 



BELL. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1894, p. 396 [Actinometra parvicirra, part). 



THURSTON. Madras Government Museum Bulletin, N° 1, 1894, p. 28 [Actinometra parvicirra, part). 



PFEFFER. Senck. Ges. Abhandl., vol. 25, 1900, p. 85 [Actinometra litoralis). 



Chadwick. in Herdman, Report Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fisheries, part 2, 1904, Suppl. Rep. XI, 

 p. 158 [Actinometra parvicirra, part). 



A. H. Clark. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 21, 1908, p. 220 [Comantkus intricata). 



Vidensk. Medd. fra den naturhist. Forening i Kobenhavn, 1909, p. 143 [Comantkus 

 [Comantkus] valida). 



Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens, vol. 3, 1911, Lief. 13, p. 457. 



Memoirs of the Australian Museum, vol. 4, 191 1, part 15, p. 757. 



Proc. U. S. National Museum, vol. 39, 191 1, p. 536. 



Records of the Australian Museum, vol. 9, 1912, p. N° 1, p. 82. 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 60, 1912, N° 10, p. 9. 



Proc. U. S. National Museum, vol. 43, 1912, p. 392., 



Crinoids of the Indian Ocean, 191 2, p. 96. 



Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens, vol. 4, 19 13, Lief. 6, p. 309. 



- Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 61, 19 1 3, N n 15, p. 17. 



Records of the Western Australian Museum, vol. 1, 1914, part 3, p. 120 [Comantkus 



[ Vania] atinulata). 



H. L. CLARK. Carnegie Institution of . Washington Publication N n 212, 191 5, p. ioi [Co- 

 mantkus annulatum); p. 102 [Comantlius annulatum xantlium). 



Stat. 43. Anchorage off Pulu Sarassa, Postillon Islands. Down to 36 Metres. 1 Ex. 



Stat. 50. Bay of Badjo, western coast of Flores. Down to 40 Metres. 1 Ex. 



Stat. 89. Pulu Kaniungan ketjil. n Metres. 17 Ex. 



Stat. 149. Fau anchorage and lagoon, western coast of Gebé Island. 31 Metres. 1 Ex. 



Stat. 209. Anchorage off the south point of Kabaëna Island. Reef 1 Ex. 



Stat. 213. Saleyer. 1 Ex. 



Stat. 273. Anchorage off Pulu Jedan, eastern coast of the Aru Islands (Pearl Banks). 13 



Metres. 1 Ex. 

 Stat. 322. One and one half miles south of Tandjong Lajar, south coast of Bawean Island. 

 32 Metres. 2 Ex. 



The example from Stat. 43 has 40 arms vvhich are about 100 mm. long; all the division 

 series are 4 (3 + 4) ; the centrodorsal is pentagonal, sunken nearly to the level of the dorsal 

 surface of the radial pentagon, with a few obsolete cirrus sockets on the margin. 



The specimen from Stat. 50 has 39 arms 120 mm. long; all the division series are 



