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specimen is very dull purplish with yellow cirri ; others are 

 yellowish more or less clouded with purplish ; in the 19-armed 

 individual the dull purplish predominates. Twenty-three 

 specimens. 



The specimen from off Noosa Head, Queensland, is notice- 

 ably more slender than the others and the cirri are somewhat 

 more compressed but these differences are very shght and no 

 more than one might expect in view of the wide separation of 

 Noosa Head from the Tasmanian waters where this species 

 seems to be so common. It is no doubt nearly related to 

 C. trichoptera, but the scarcity of division series and the 

 absence of the peculiar axillaries characteristic of that species, 

 would seem to preclude regarding the two as identical. Many 

 of the specimens, even small ones, have the genital pinnules 

 immensely swollen with the reproductive cells ; in some cases 

 only the pinnules near the tip of the arm are unaltered. The 

 specimens which have dates on the labels were taken in March 

 and April, 1914, and thus it is evident that the species breeds 

 in late summer and early faU. It is possible, of course, that 

 it has a prolonged breeding period. 



Locs. — East of Babel Island, Bass Strait, 60-70 fathoms and 

 50-80 fathoms. 



North-east of Babel Island, Bass Strait, 100-170 fathoms. 



Twenty miles east of Babel Island, Bass Strait, 65 fathoms. 



East of Maria Island, Tasmania, 78 fathoms. 



East of Flinders Island, Bass Strait, 70-100 fathoms. 



Eastern Slope, Bass Strait, 70-120 fathoms. 



Off Noosa Head, southern Queensland, 16 fathoms. 



Family ZYGOMETRID^. 



Genus Zygometra, A. H. Clark. 



Zygometra elegans (Bell). 



Antedon elegans, Bell, Rep. Zool. Coll. H.M.S. " Alert," 

 1884, p. 162. 



Zygometra elegans, A. H. Clark, Smiths. Misc. Coll., 1., 

 1907, p. 348. 



The occurrence of this comatuhd as far south as Sandon 

 Bluffs, New South Wales, is an interesting extension of its 

 range, since it is not recorded from a lower latitude than that of 

 Port Curtis, Queensland. The three specimens are all of 



