JAPANESE ASTEROIDE A : 283 



Sluiter again reports it from tlie Bay of Batavia [ '95, p. 55]. Kœhler 

 describes a specimen from tlie Suncia Isles [ '95, p. 388] : — " Un échantillon 

 à huit bras inégaux; sur le plus grand Pt = 17. La couleur est gris clair 

 avec de nombreuses taches brunes placées de distance en distance sm- les 

 bras. Au centre du disque se trouve une tache rayonnante et au niveau 

 de l'insei-tion des bras une série de taches en forme d'Y." 



DöDEELEiN reports one specimen from Tlunsday Island [ '96, -p. 307]. 



Bedford reports it from Singapore [ : 00, p. 293] : 



"K=:7.6xr. 



"Locality. A single large 7-armed specimen from between tide-marks, 

 Singapore. The arms had undergone a considerable amount of fractm^e and 

 regeneration. 



" Dlsfrihutim. Extends from Mozambique to Macclesfield Bank and 

 northwards to South Japan. 



" R 190 r 25 Arm-breadth 23 " [mm.] 



This species is referred to by Döderlein in his paper on Japanese 

 Asteroidea [ : 02, p. 330] : 



" Luidia macnlata Müller u. Troschel. 



"Diese schöne schwarz imd gelbgefleckte Art, die grösste Asteroiden- 

 Form, die ich in Japan sah, beobachtete ich nur in der Bai von Kagosliima, 

 wo sie in geringer Tiefe (ca. 30 m) ziemlich häufig ist. Exemplare mit 7-9 

 Ai-men und einem gi'ossen Eadius von 65 bis 350 mm geriethen nicht selten 

 in das bei den doi-tigen Fischern gebräucMiche Grimdnetz ; ein grosses 

 Exemplar fieng sich an einer mit einem Fisch beködeiien Angel." 



It is refen-ed to by Herdman in his pearl oyster report [ : 03, p. 20, 

 23, 26, 106], and is again reported from Ceylon by the Herdmans [Herd- 

 man, Herdman & Bell, : 04, p. 143] : 



" Luidia Tnaculata, M. and T. 



"Abimdant all roimd Ceylon, and especially in the shallow water of 

 the pearl banks in the Gnlf of Manaar, where we obtained specimens of 

 all sizes from a couple of centimetres up to well over a foot across." 



Herdman [ : 06, p. 121, 447] mentions it as an enemy of the pearl 

 oyster. Brown repoi-ts it from the Mergui Ai'cliipelago [ : 10, p. 30] : 



