140 Bvlletin Vanderbilt Marine Museum, Vol. VII 



description of this species and with the excellent figures given by 

 Doderlein and Koehler. 



References: Ophiothrix striolata, Grube, A. E., Breslau Zool. 

 Mus., Jahrb. d. Schles. Gesell. f. Vaterland Cultur, 1867, Bd. 

 XLV, p. 45.— Lyman, Th., Kept. Voy. H. M. S. "Challenger," 

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 315, 326.— Bell, T. J., Kept. Zool. Indo-Pacific by H. M. S. 

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 4E,ser.l0, p. 90 ; Siboga-ExpeditieOphiures, Monogr. XLV-B, 

 1905, p. 76, pi. 15, fig. 2 ; Bull. Sci. France-Belg., t. XLI, 1907, 

 p. 338; Ophiuroidea, in Fauna Sudwest Australiens, Bd. I, 

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Genus: OPHIOCNEMIS MuUer and Troschel 

 Ophiocnemis marmorata (Lamarck) 



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Plates 48 and 49 



Type: Lamarck's type, now deposited in the Paris Museum, 



was listed by him as "Habite des voyages de Peron et Leseuer." 



(Voyages de de'couvertes aux Terres Australis, execute .... pen- 

 dant 1800-04, et redige par M. F. Peron, 1807-16) . 



Distribution: This species is widely distributed over the 

 entire littoral zone of the Indo-Pacific, having been recorded from 

 Zanzibar and the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa eastward in 

 the Mergui Archipelago, Ceylon, Singapore, the Philippines be- 

 tween Panay and Guimaras, 37 fathoms, the Sunda Archipelago 

 and on the coast of northwestern Australia. 



Material examined : One specimen, brought up from a depth 

 of 14 fathoms, in Durian Straits, south entrance to South Brother's 

 Island, Dutch East Indies, October 22, 1931. 



