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The specimen described is the largest and is from St. 4742. The one from 

 St. 4656 is smaller, with disk only 6 mm. across; in all particulars however, it 

 agrees ^^^th the holotype. The third specimen is from St. 4742 and measures 

 only 4 mm. across the disk; it is sm-jn-isingly like the holotype and offers no 

 featiu"es worthy of special conmient. The generic characters are well shown 

 by the holotype, in wliich the base of each ray contains a well-developed genital 

 tuft on each side. The junction of the oral plates with the interradial is very 

 clear in the specimen from St. 4656. The, rays of all the specimens are still 

 attached to the disk, though several are broken off near the base. The presence 

 of six rays and the absence of a furrow-spine ally this species with the following, 

 but the general facies is quite different. They evidently form a very distinct 

 section of the genus. 



Freyellidea tuberciilata. 



Freyella tuberculata Sladen, 1889. Challenger Ast., p. 638. 



Freyellidea tuberculata Fisher, 1917. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 20, p. 429. 



The specimen at hand is of just the same size as the one described by Sladen, 

 having the disk 12 mm. across and the rays 240 nmi. long. It answers to the 

 description in practically every particular and I have sought in vain for some 

 character by which the Pacific form might be separated from the Atlantic. 

 There is then in the discovery of this species in the Pacific by the Albatross 

 further evidence in support of the view that the true deep-sea fauna is essentially 

 cosmopohtan. 



Station 4742. Eastern Tropical Pacific, 0° 3' 24" N., 117° 15' 48" W., 2,320 fms. Bott. temp. 34.3°. 

 Fne. It. gy. glob. oz. 



One specimen and three additional arms. 



