

min to 9 mm. long; the arms are moderately stout, 

 ■ llow brown with ;i narrow mediodorsal line 

 ilet; the smaller specimen has the arms 80 mm. I< 

 XIII. 



• mm. long and the posterior ~<> mm.; tuur of the 

 iut, especially the posterior; the cirri are si.ua and 



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ample lias the anterior arms 95 mm. long and the posterior 



1 itely stout; six are grooved and four are ungrooved; the cirri 



\lll. a i individual is similar, but slightly smaller; the last is small, with the arms 



mm. long; the pst- yy between the elements of the IBr series and that between 



are perfectly developed. 



one \ »ung specimen. 



imen with moderately stout arms 115 mm. long. 



I liis cimens shows that the pseudosyzy^y between the clements of the [Br 



firsl two brachials is perfected at a very early age, and furnishes an important 



racter. Furthermore the brachials of the species of Comatuta always have smooth 



-. while those ut' the most closely allied genus, Comactinia y have spinose edges. In Coma- 



purpurea the characteristie arrangement ut" the cirri is evident in very small individuals. 



Comatulides A. II. ( luk. 

 Ke\ t<> the Species of the Genus Comatulides. 



1 ■ irri XXII- XXIV, 12 -15; division series and proximal portion of arms without 



synarthrial or articular tubercles Lesser Sunda and Kei Islands) . . . australis 



rri XL. [6 — 17; division series and proximal portion of arms rugged, with 

 strongly developed synarthrial and articular tubercles (southwestern Japan) . decameros 



1. Comatulides australis (A. II. Clark . 



A. II. Clark. Proc. Hink Soc. Washington, vol. 25, 1912, p. 21 Cominia australü 



.7. 5°54'S., i32°;o.-K. 984 Metres. 1 Ex. 

 17. to° 39 5., 123° 40 E. 520 Metres. 1 Ex. 



• imen trom Stat. 207 is slightly larger than the type drom Stat. 2071, having 



1 mm. long; the centrodorsal is thin discoidal, very broad, with the circular 



flat, 4.5 mm. in diameter; the cirri are XXII 1 with a numher undeveloped), 1; 



illy i( is. 15 mm. to 10 mm. long, arranged in a single irregular marginal row; 



20 mm. long; I' is 18 mm. long; tin- clements of the division series and the brachials 



with a prominent line dermal granulation. 



il is thin discoidal with the bare dorsal pok ilat. 2.0 mm. in 

 1 1 1 in three closely crowded roughly alternating marginal 



