26 2 



/'. ntam t ' ■ n P. 1 1. Carpentei 



1'. il. i Journ. 1 .in ti. Soc. Zool.), vol. i6, [882, p. 497 



«Cha Reports. The Comatulae, p. 82, pi 1. 1-3. 



,; .; I Banda Sea. 1 158 Metres. 2 Ex. 



imens agree well with the types in the British Museum; neither possesses 

 cirri. nor arms beyond the first syzygy (between the fourth and fifth brachials). 



< In one arm of one of the specimens the first brachial is repeated .is a smal! ossicle 



aboul one half the sizc of the normal first brachial, and of al/out half the width, being 



n the normal first brachial and the second brachial; the articulations between 



the normal and the supernumerary first brachials, and between the latter and the second 



hial, are both synarthries. 



4. Pentametrocrinus varians (P. II. Carpenter). 



1'. II. CARPENTER. Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.), vol. 16, 1S82, p. 496 [Eudiocrinus varians). 

 — "Challenger" Reports. The Comatulae, p. Si, pi. 7, figs. 3—7 [Eudiocrinus varians). 



St.it. 4.5. 7 24 S.. 1 iS D 1 5 .2 K. Flores Sea. 794 Metres. 2 Ex. 

 Stat. 4S. 8°4'.7S., mS°44'.3 !•:. Flores Sea. 2060 Metres. 2 Ex. 

 St.it. ;,i4. 7°3<VS.. [i7°3o'.8E. Flores Sea. 694 Metres. 2 Ex. 



lii.- two examples from Stat. 45 are of medium size; the more perfect has the cirri 

 22 mm. long composed of 19 segments. 



The two specimens from Stat. 48 are: small and much broken. 



larger specimen from Stat. 314 has the arms about 120 mm. long; the swollen 

 ovaries appear to contain ripe eggs. The smaller specimen has the arms about 90 mm. long 

 and the cirri 17 mm. long, composed of 21 segments. 



III. Family Atelecrinidae Bather. 



K'\ to the Genera of the Atelecrinidae. 



a 1 Five arms; no basals; five large basal rays separating from each other the 



five deep subradial clefts; Atopocrinus 



, Ten arms; I nt, though sometimes only visible in the angles 



of the calyx; no subradial clefts Atelecrinus 



Atopocrinus A. II. (huk. 

 A. II. 11 VRK. Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. 34, p. 150. 



Diagnosis. — A genus of Atelecrinidae in which the arms are five in number; all the 

 tre present; the basals are resorbed, but live I basal rays are visible in the angles 



