50 



the periph ' outer portion of the < irri nearly 



• the HBr series 2 instead of 4 (3 : 



irms Ceylo n an d t h «• Bay of B e n g a 1 



rn a ml northem Australia, the Solomon 



[si Fiji a n il Tonga, and northward to the 



Philippin< annulata 



$0 arms (Seychelles, Madagascar and the 

 Mascarene [slands to Ceylon and the Bay of Bengal, 

 and eastward to western and northern Australia, 

 \eu Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, the Friendly, Pelew 

 and Caroline I slands, and northward to southern 



Japan and Arno y, China) parvicirra 



ent 

 b' usually between 35 and 60 arms, which are more than 100 mm. long 

 (Ceylon and the Bay of Bengal to western and northern 

 Australia, the Solomon I slands, Fiji and Tonga, and nortli- 



wardtothePhilippines) annulata 



illy between 20 and 30 arms. which are rarely more than 100 mm. long 

 Seychelles, Madagascar and the Mascarene I s 1 a n d s t o C e y 1 o n 

 and the Bay of bengal, and eastward to western and northern 

 Australia, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, the Friendly, Pelew 

 and Caroline I s 1 a n d s , and northward t o southern Japan and 

 Amoy, China) parvicirra 



1. Comanthus (Cenolia) bennet ti 1 J. Muller). 



LAMARCK. Hist. nat. des animaux sans vertèbres, vol. 2, 1S16, p. 533 (Comatula multiradiata, part |. 

 Dl USS. 1'etrcfacta Germaniae, vol. 1, 1832, p. 202, pi. 61, fig. 2,a — s (Comatula multiradiata). 

 J. Mi 1 1 1 !.. Archiv fur Naturgesch., 1841, I, p. 146 (Alecto bennetti). 



Abhandl. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., 1841 (1843), p. 216 [Alecto bennetti). 



Abhandl. d. k. preuss. Akad. d. Wiss., 1847 (1849), P- 2 ^ ' (Comatula [Alecto] multiradiata, 



part ; p. 204 [Comatula bennet: 

 VRD1N et Hu 1 . Mist. nat. des zoophytes. Échinodermes, p. 20S [Comatula bennetti); p. 210 

 tinometra multiradiata, part); p. 212 [Comaster multiradiatus). 

 !ii~' 111. Archiv fur Naturgesch., 1866, I, p. 90 (Actinometra bennetti). 

 •WIG. Zeitschr. fur wiss. Zool., vol. 28, 1877, p. 255 {Actinometra bennetti). 

 at. Mus. Godeftrey, vol. 5, 1877, p. 100 [Actinometra brackymet 

 1'. II. I ITER. Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), vol. 13, 1877, p. 450 [Actinometra bennet. 



— '1 inn. Soc. / '879, p. -J 'Actinometra bennett 



the Leyden Museum, vol. 3, 1881, p. 212 (Actinometra bennetti ■ p. 214 



metra [•> • 

 - Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), vol. l6, 1882, pp. 521, ~,2},, 52c [Actinometra beun. 



'lenger" Reports. Myzostoma, 1887, pp. ;. 7, 11 (Actinometra bennet: 

 1'. 1 -( hallenger" Reports. Comatulae, 18S8, pp. 59, 61, 329, 331, 348, 366 



1 bennetti); pp. 59, {24, ;;i. 7, 386 [Actinometra per, 



