SEA LILIES, STARFISHES, ETC. — CLARK. 115 



a broad indistinct band of purple around the middle ; the 

 specimen is in poor condition, however, and I think the 

 colour of the spines has been altered ; I beheve they were, as 

 usual, greenish at base, violet or purple distally and with 

 an indistinct light tip ; in the process of preservation the 

 green tint has been nearly completely obhterated. 



The occurrence of typical S. virgulata on the coast of 

 southern Queensland necessitates the acceptance of Doder- 

 lein's view that S. alexandri is at best only a subspecies of 

 S. virgulata, and I am the more ready to do this because the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology has now a typical specimen 

 of S. alexandri from Badu Island, Torres Strait. Obviously 

 the geographical ranges of the two forms are by no means 

 distinct. Three specimens. 



Logs. — Off the coast of Queensland. 



Twenty-five miles south-east of Double Island Point, 

 Queensland. 



Genus Microcyphus, L. Agassiz and Desor. 

 MiCROCYPHUS ANNULATUS, Mortcnsen. 



Microcyphus annulatus, Mortensen, Siam Ech., 1904, p. 101. 



This is a typical example of this species, 11 mm. in 

 •diameter. 



Loc. — Seven miles north-east of Cape Pillar, Tasmania, 

 50-60 fathoms. 



Genus Amblypneustes, L. Agassiz. 



Amblypneustes grandis, H. L. Clark. 



Amblypneustes grandis, H. L. Clark, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 

 Harvard, xxxiv., 1912, p. 329. 



These are all large specimens, 50-63 mm. in diameter, with 

 the height ranging from .60 to .76 h.d. In colouration there 

 is considerable diversity. The specimens from an unknown 

 locality are light brown, with the small spines whitish and 

 the primaries greenish-brown, tipped with whitish ; in one 

 specimen the greenish-brown is confined to the basal part 

 of the spine, especially on the actinal surface. The speci- 

 mens from Flinders Island, Bass Strait, are similar but more 

 green ; the test is olive-greenish and the basal part of the 

 primaries is more green than brown ; in one specimen the 

 primaries are nearly all white. The specimen from between 

 Gabo Island, Victoria, and Disaster Bay, New South Wales, 



